[PLUG] Filesystem problems with new USB drive

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Fri Jul 20 21:56:26 UTC 2018


A way to test that would be to re-create the 10GB (?) partition at the
beginning, write zeros to it, partition the rest for your drive, see if
that works, then go back and check if the bytes in the first partition are
still zero.

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:54 PM, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

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 why should I settle for a filesystem that was superseded many years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