bad block/superblock on new disk?
Liam Proven
lproven at gmail.com
Sat May 23 15:19:12 UTC 2020
On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 16:59, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> sincere question: what about this, then:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2020-May/300329.html
Oliver is on this list; why not ask him?
> correction/completion: what skips these parts is at least half of the
> first page of google results about how to format a new hard drive
> under Ubuntu.
I think they may be talking about USB keys or flash memory sticks.
These are not the same as hard disks.
*Some* system firmware treats memory sticks as being like floppies.
Floppies do not need partitioning; the filesystem is written direct to
the medium.
*Some* firmware can only boot from a USB key formatted directly,
without a filesystem.
However, the correct way is to partition it, then format the partition(s).
For hard disks, I would call this a necessity.
> I have just moved that drive to another external case, and it gives
> the same error in dmesg.
The disk is defective. Return it and ask for a replacement.
No, you cannot reformat a disk that you cannot format in the first place.
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