Am Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:38:22PM + schrieb Stroller:
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> > On 15 Feb 2025, at 07:41, Philip Webb wrote:
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> > Has anyone else encountered this ? Does anyone have suggestions ?
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> Create multiple large files on your desktop PC. You could use movie files if
> you have a small num
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
> On 15 Feb 2025, at 07:41, Philip Webb wrote:
> ...
> 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, an
> On 17 Feb 2025, at 12:02, Michael wrote:
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>> as cb seen, it took 4 h 15 m .
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> This is an excessively long time for a USB 2.0 port, but thankfully the dmesg
> output no longer showed any disconnections.
The poor wee flash controller had to keep erasing the drive's 16MB of flash so
ma
On Monday 17 February 2025 09:18:45 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
> 250216 Philip Webb wrote:
> > I'm currently testing a 2.0/1.1 port to write an Ext2 file system.
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> it succeeded ! -- results below :
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> root:668 ~> t ; mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ; t
> 2025-02-16 Sun 22.21.11
> mke2
250216 Philip Webb wrote:
> I'm currently testing a 2.0/1.1 port to write an Ext2 file system.
it succeeded ! -- results below :
root:668 ~> t ; mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ; t
2025-02-16 Sun 22.21.11
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Creating filesystem with 16777216 4k blocks and 4194304 inodes
F
250217 Michael wrote:
> On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
>> I successfully formatted one of the partitions which failed with Ext2 as
>> Vfat. I was able to mount it, create a file with words in it,
>> save it, list it via 'ls', browse it & then delete it, a
On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote:
> I successfully formatted one of the partitions which failed with Ext2 as
> Vfat. I was able to mount it, create a file with words in it,
> save it, list it via 'ls', browse it & then delete it, all using Gentoo.
> This sug
I successfully formatted one of the partitions which failed with Ext2 as Vfat.
I was able to mount it, create a file with words in it,
save it, list it via 'ls', browse it & then delete it, all using Gentoo.
This suggests that the problem isn't due to defective hardware,
but is somewhere in 'mke2fs
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
& the
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