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 5B4991582EF for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:20:53 +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 484FC34316A for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:20:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFC011047D; Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (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 49E5D1103A8 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:19:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [109.180.99.107] (helo=[192.168.1.99]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1tk3qM-000000009v0-2Y21 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:19:38 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:19:36 +0000 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 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1819814.VLH7GnMWUR@rogueboard> Content-Language: en-GB From: Wols Lists In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: da6ad14c-5abb-4342-add8-9d1ebd134662 X-Archives-Hash: ba90dc72cbb7e6ce97610bf12ddacf4f 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