On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store. > > I plan to try 'gparted' next, instead of 'fdisk' > & will send the results when I get them.
Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb? You only want one filesystem, right? Why bother with a partition table if you don't want to partition the device? -- Grant
