[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Fri Jul 20 21:54:49 UTC 2018


What is the model of this thing?  It could be that the electronics doing
the USB-Sata bridge is stomping on part of disk.

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 why should I settle for a filesystem that was superseded many years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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