Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3

2025-02-18 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 03:46:26 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250217 Michael wrote: > > It is worth mentioning the sys-block/f3 package (Fight Flash Fraud), > > which is in Portage and can test a USB flash disk to discover if it is > > fake. Besides the slower f3write and f3read, th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3

2025-02-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:53:42AM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > 250218 Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb 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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3

2025-02-17 Thread Philip Webb
250218 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3

2025-02-17 Thread Philip Webb
250217 Michael wrote: > It is worth mentioning the sys-block/f3 package (Fight Flash Fraud), > which is in Portage and can test a USB flash disk to discover if it is fake. > Besides the slower f3write and f3read, the f3probe command > will only take a few minutes and confirm the available space. T