Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info

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On 17/02/2025 03:43, Philip Webb wrote:
> The sticks were delivered, so I can't easily return them,
> & in any case we've had  50 cm  snow dumped on us in the last few days.
> If a Linux file system really is unachievable,
> I can format the sticks as FAT, which sb adequate for simple archiving.

Don't you have "fit for purpose"? In the UK if the sticks won't reformat 
to ext2 or whatever you want them for, you'd just return them as not fit 
/ faulty, and consumer protection law kicks in to say you're due a full 
refund.

And if they say "it was provided as FAT, you shouldn't have reformatted 
it", well where did they say that when you bought it, and lots of uses 
(TVs etc) do advise you to reformat sticks.

Plus of course, as was mentioned elsewhere, if it can't cope with a data 
load of reformatting, how do you know it's going to cope with other, 
different data loads?

Cheers,
Wol