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

2025-02-17 Thread Philip Webb
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

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

2025-02-17 Thread Michael
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. > > it succeeded ! -- results below : > > root:668 ~> t ; mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ; t > 2025-02-16 Sun 22.21.11 > mke2

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

2025-02-17 Thread Michael
On Monday 17 February 2025 17:16:51 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-17, 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 unachievab

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner --reallyall and leftover files, that I didn't touch.

2025-02-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Monday 10 February 2025 10:53:26 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> >>> This is the perl I have installed. >>> >>> >>> dev-lang/perl-5.40.0-r1:0/5.40 >>> >>> >>> I'm not going to list all the stuff it spit out. Just going to include >>> enough that you get the i

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency missing for libreoffice-bin?

2025-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-02-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On my system, the only .so file that belonging to libreoffice-bin that > links in libQt5X11Extras.so.5 is program/libvclplug_qt5lo.so > > It looks like on my system, the "gen" version of the vcl plugin is used: > > $ lsof | grep libvcl > soffice.b 8834

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

2025-02-17 Thread Stroller
> 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

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

2025-02-17 Thread Stroller
> On 17 Feb 2025, at 12:02, Michael wrote: >> >> as cb seen, it took 4 h 15 m . > > 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

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

2025-02-17 Thread Wols Lists
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

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

2025-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-02-17, 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, Sounds to me like the USB flash drives might be fakes. They might have only a

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

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

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

2025-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb 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 bo

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

2025-02-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM + schrieb Michael: > On Sunday 16 February 2025 09:08:10 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 250215 Michael wrote: > > > >> Formatting a 256GB USB drive, especially if it is a USB 3.0 or later > > >> spec, should

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

2025-02-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 04:38:22PM + schrieb Stroller: > > > > 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 num