On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> 250218 Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote:
>>> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store.
>> 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?
>
> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4 partitions
> because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB filesystem & fail,
> whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB partition & fail.
There is something _seriously_ wrong with the device.
1. It shouldn't take anywhere near that wrong to create a
filesystem: there just isn't that much data written during an
'mkfs' operation.
2. Writing even that small amount of data FAILED.
I can't understand why you want to continue using this device.
> FYI I bought 4 Kingston 128 GB sticks in 2023 & had no problem with
> them. At that time, the store didn't offer 256 GB sticks.
--
Grant
