bad block/superblock on new disk?

[M. Fioretti]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 05:28:32 AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Even if you are going to format the whole drive to one filesystem, you 
> still need a partition table.

sorry, I'm surely missing something basic here, but... why would I need to pass a partition table, if I understand your question?

Doesn't "mkfs -t ext4" just means "the hell with whatever is on that
disk, make of it one ext4 partition, and you create a partition table"?

Thanks,
Marco