bad block/superblock on new disk?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 23.05.2020, 11:42 +0200 schrieb 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"?

No, the partitioning is done by a separate program, such as fdisk or
gdisk. "mkfs" won't do any partitioning.

Bye
Volker