Recently, I bought 2 new Kingston Exodia 256 GB USB sticks
from Canada Computers, the store in Toronto I've used for 25 yr .
With many previous new USB sticks of sizes <= 128 GB
& which came with a VFat filesystem,
I simply repartitioned them using Fdisk, which created a Linux partition
& then used 'mke2fs' to format them with an Ext2 filesystem.
This time, something has gone wrong :
root:538 ~> mke2fs /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Creating filesystem with 60567296 4k blocks and 15147008 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 80c2f275-ed6b-4ef5-b785-b53bd225ca9e
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912,
819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000,
23887872
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
mke2fs: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system
I tried repartitioning the stick into 2 x 128 GB partitions,
in case it was the sheer size which was the problem, but got the same result.
The error occured with both sticks, so it doesn't seem to be bad hardware.
It took 10 h 40 m to process the 256 GB part'n on my 2023 desktop machine,
so trying suggestions cb a rather long-drawn-out affair (smile).
Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have suggestions ?
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