[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

[Ben Koenig]

 John,

1 of 2 things is going wrong here.

The first is that these USB drives are broken/poorly designed. You can test
this by using a completely different computer and/or OS to do the format.

The second is that your computer is failing to format them properly.
mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext4 are actually front ends to completely different
filesystem tools, so maybe something is screwy with your install?
Test this one by using your computer to format a completely different USB
drive. Give your computer a thumbdrive pop quiz, pass/fail.


I'm more inclined to say that your USB drives are cheap pieces of crap, but
lately Ubuntu has been a cheap piece of crap too. Who knows?
What is the model# of these chinese usb drives from ebay? It almost sounds
like they have some stupid firmware on them that could be a problem.


On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:39 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:23:11 -0700
> wes <plug at the-wes.com> dijo:
>
> >Nothing jumps out at me there as being problematic. So I guess it's
> >time to try again.
>
> I tried again, and still no luck, but then I tried mkfs.ext2, and that
> worked. I now have a filesystem that I can mount, although it shows up
> as owned by root. However, this is less than ideal, as (apparently)
> ext2 cannot do labels. It now appears as '252 GB Volume' instead of the
> label that I gave it with ext4 '256GB-1.' The problem is that I have
> two of these devices, and I am easily confused. I want my label. Plus,
> why should I settle for a filesystem that was superseded many years
> ago? And it bothers me that it can't be formatted ext4. What is wrong
> with this drive?
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