Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick

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> On 15 Feb 2025, at 07:41, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
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> Has anyone else encountered this ?  Does anyone have suggestions ?

Create multiple large files on your desktop PC. You could use movie files if 
you have a small number of large enough files handy. I would prefer 5 files of 
about 45GB, and I would create them using `for i in {1..5} ; do dd 
if=/dev/random of=random$i ; done` and a file size specifier to dd.

md5sum the files, copy them to the drive and md5sum the copies. Do the md5sums 
match up?

I think there's a good chance they won't.