bad block/superblock on new disk?

[Marco Fioretti]

Oh boy, I had forgotten that. I got confused because I had just done the same thing (that is, power up, and go straight with mkfs -t ext4) on another disk from another brand, without any problem. Probably that disk had come with a partition table from factory, and this had nothing at all, instead?
I am not at my computer right now, but will try running fdisk to create the partition/partition table later today. In the meantime, further feedback/comments/pointer remain very welcome!
Thanks,
Marco
On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 12:05, Volker Wysk  wrote:
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

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