bad block/superblock on new disk?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 23 May 2020 05:42:24 M. Fioretti wrote:

> 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

You need a partition table so mkfs knows how big the disk is.  Its not 
smart enough to guess what you meant.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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