Topic: Error formatting USB stick in ext4
Hi all,
Newbie with GParted 0.25.0, running on debian stretch (9.1.0). I've tried to flash a 16GB usb stick in ext4 format and I get the following error. I tried a different usb stick, and the same error occured. However, I tried formatting the same USB stick in ext4 with partition magic on a windows 10 PC, and it worked perfectly.
GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
Libparted 3.2
Format /dev/sdd1 as ext4 00:05:24 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sdd1 (partition)
start: 8064
end: 30320639
size: 30312576 (14.45 GiB)
clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1 00:00:08 ( SUCCESS )
write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 15519449088 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 15519973376 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 15520030720 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd 00:00:08 ( SUCCESS )
set partition type on /dev/sdd1 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS )
new partition type: ext4
create new ext4 file system 00:05:15 ( ERROR )
mkfs.ext4 -F -L "" /dev/sdd1 00:05:15 ( ERROR )
Creating filesystem with 3789072 4k blocks and 948416 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 195a1d42-07f6-4dc9-9ee1-00609da33ed0
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.
I tried using this USB stick in other servers that read ext4 and it doesn't get detected. The one formatted by partition magic works good in all systems. I tried creating a partition from scratch and that didn't help. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Will