From: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:39:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1819814.VLH7GnMWUR@rogueboard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z7JtWYQNhWH8hlLN@ca.inter.net>
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On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
> I successfully formatted one of the partitions which failed with Ext2 as
> Vfat. I was able to mount it, create a file with words in it,
> save it, list it via 'ls', browse it & then delete it, all using Gentoo.
> This suggests that the problem isn't due to defective hardware,
> but is somewhere in 'mke2fs' or related material.
>
> Any observations are very welcome.
A USB drive which disconnects itself without interference by the user does not
indicate a problem caused by any filesystem in and of itself.
However, a poor quality or buggy USB flash controller which drops the
connection because it is overloaded by data, could produce all sort of random
failures.
I am no filesystem expert, but my thinking is an ext2 filesystem will try to
commit more data to a block device than FAT does while formatted. Ext2 will
write in many different blocks across the partition by creating backups of its
superblock, inode bitmaps, inode tables, etc. If a USB drive cannot cope with
this relatively simple transaction of committing to flash cells the structure
of a filesystem, then it must have bigger problems.
Instead of writing and deleting a simple text file, I would try to stress test
the drive by copying over a more demanding workload in order to see if this
succeeds without dmesg coming up with any more errors.
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-15 7:41 [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick Philip Webb
2025-02-15 11:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
2025-02-15 13:31 ` Michael
2025-02-16 2:37 ` Philip Webb
2025-02-16 9:08 ` Nuno Silva
2025-02-16 13:41 ` Michael
2025-02-16 14:48 ` Wols Lists
2025-02-17 23:12 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-18 11:53 ` Michael
2025-02-19 12:10 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 9:58 ` Michael
2025-02-16 22:57 ` [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info Philip Webb
2025-02-17 0:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
2025-02-17 0:39 ` Michael [this message]
2025-02-17 3:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2025-02-17 9:18 ` Philip Webb
2025-02-17 12:02 ` Michael
2025-02-17 16:33 ` Stroller
2025-02-17 16:19 ` Wols Lists
2025-02-17 17:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-17 18:12 ` Michael
2025-02-18 3:46 ` [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3 Philip Webb
2025-02-18 4:43 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-18 5:53 ` Philip Webb
2025-02-18 9:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-18 19:10 ` [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : alternatives Philip Webb
2025-02-18 21:18 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-18 23:25 ` Michael
2025-02-19 12:16 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-19 12:20 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 10:47 ` Michael
2025-02-18 14:40 ` [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3 Grant Edwards
2025-02-18 17:00 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-18 11:57 ` Michael
2025-02-18 18:54 ` [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : glances at gparted Philip Webb
2025-02-18 23:13 ` Michael
2025-02-19 0:47 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-19 1:12 ` [gentoo-user] alternatives to USB sticks for reliable archiving Philip Webb
2025-02-19 2:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2025-02-19 9:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael
2025-02-19 3:00 ` [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : glances at gparted eric
2025-02-20 18:18 ` Dale
2025-02-20 22:40 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-20 23:43 ` Grant Edwards
2025-02-21 8:10 ` Dale
2025-03-08 22:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-03-08 22:48 ` Dale
2025-03-09 10:31 ` Michael
2025-03-10 3:32 ` Dale
2025-03-10 13:01 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2025-02-17 16:38 ` [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick Stroller
2025-02-17 23:06 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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