On 17/02/2025 03:43, Philip Webb wrote:
The sticks were delivered, so I can't easily return them, & in any case we've had 50 cm snow dumped on us in the last few days. If a Linux file system really is unachievable, I can format the sticks as FAT, which sb adequate for simple archiving.
Don't you have "fit for purpose"? In the UK if the sticks won't reformat to ext2 or whatever you want them for, you'd just return them as not fit / faulty, and consumer protection law kicks in to say you're due a full refund.
And if they say "it was provided as FAT, you shouldn't have reformatted it", well where did they say that when you bought it, and lots of uses (TVs etc) do advise you to reformat sticks.
Plus of course, as was mentioned elsewhere, if it can't cope with a data load of reformatting, how do you know it's going to cope with other, different data loads?
Cheers, Wol
