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)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47D871582EF for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:02:39 +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 5CD64343745 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bobolink.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A025E11047E; Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by bobolink.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81D99110470 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tkQx9-00044p-Kv for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:05 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <115993398.nniJfEyVGO@rogueboard> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: ee71249a-7b89-4686-90f3-d1a71d6d5fbb X-Archives-Hash: b990affdb7e3c963578298f9596aac46 On 2025-02-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4 >> partitions because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB >> filesystem & fail, whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB >> partition & fail. > > There is something _seriously_ wrong with the device. > > 1. It shouldn't take anywhere near that wrong to create a > filesystem: there just isn't that much data written during an > 'mkfs' operation. It also shouldn't take anywhere near that _long_ to create a filesystem. :)