From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 647D91582EF for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gentoo.org (bobolink.gentoo.org [140.211.166.189]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: relay-lists.gentoo.org@gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 514513430BB for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7332C11047E; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mp-relay-02.fibernetics.ca (mp-relay-02.fibernetics.ca [208.85.217.137]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 423C711042D for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailpool-fe-02.fibernetics.ca (mailpool-fe-02.fibernetics.ca [208.85.217.145]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mp-relay-02.fibernetics.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4631A62457 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mailpool-mx-02.fibernetics.ca [208.85.217.141]) by mailpool-fe-02.fibernetics.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4382060BF1 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:13 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.299 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.299 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1, BAYES_50=0.8, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, URIBL_BLOCKED=0.001] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no Received: from mailpool-fe-02.fibernetics.ca ([208.85.217.145]) by localhost (mail-mx-02.fibernetics.ca [208.85.217.141]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ja-0roA7Pxbt for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ca.inter.net (ipagstaticip-775be200-4a37-75d6-8e66-9fb1bf5ef423.sdsl.bell.ca [74.15.193.54]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: purslow1@ca.inter.net) by mail.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DB4A360493 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:41:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ca.inter.net; s=mail; t=1739605272; bh=by7wLZODFhfn+pcdtw9QHgsEInBC9/6NCdX9/uBr8FQ=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From; b=dde0Rqt5KHHMYS5SlHXGigoby2j7abUTvjdnZZ7mHF74O6JhUWIAgZp3Wu/J9rOOU ZLguuQPBC3DCLHtkohQx+GTKp2HbVYtffd/KYkOEFQh/1KqOXNEyAbi7sY5rURNRm4 9IMHn99UJPuubKlE8n0m/OPG2lNqZlhLON+AKIrXLsEhCI4PUfelataTfXh6nnZ6ox YOOQCqldAJOzO+4mAvjAjfc39/oeEskRNvmqKMFF8yf4WenC37Osm+FPimg2vTcA6M rT5DlwhyYgroC8YP0CXP0aRWbB6lP4xXOAPj0OBAaFF//C67gI6a/anVGnb5ZHNxy/ yZAplyEbFuOtA== Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:41:11 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo User Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: d65daa4d-fff5-42b7-91da-1085efcce56a X-Archives-Hash: d3523b9f2004d1e9a3e6c13db944de5d Recently, I bought 2 new Kingston Exodia 256 GB USB sticks from Canada Computers, the store in Toronto I've used for 25 yr . With many previous new USB sticks of sizes <= 128 GB & which came with a VFat filesystem, I simply repartitioned them using Fdisk, which created a Linux partition & then used 'mke2fs' to format them with an Ext2 filesystem. This time, something has gone wrong : root:538 ~> mke2fs /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023) Creating filesystem with 60567296 4k blocks and 15147008 inodes Filesystem UUID: 80c2f275-ed6b-4ef5-b785-b53bd225ca9e Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mke2fs: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system I tried repartitioning the stick into 2 x 128 GB partitions, in case it was the sheer size which was the problem, but got the same result. The error occured with both sticks, so it doesn't seem to be bad hardware. It took 10 h 40 m to process the 256 GB part'n on my 2023 desktop machine, so trying suggestions cb a rather long-drawn-out affair (smile). Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have suggestions ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet