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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:43:02 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:

> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
>
> I plan to try 'gparted' next, instead of 'fdisk'
> & will send the results when I get them.

Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb?

You only want one filesystem, right?

Why bother with a partition table if you don't want to partition the
device?

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Grant