On 2025-02-15, Philip Webb wrote: > 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 ?
Are there kernel error or warning messages when this happens? -- Nuno Silva
