creation of ext4 filesystem takes 20+ hours???

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 01:46:37 AM -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>

> I would stop the installation at the earliest possible opportunity,
> you're probably unnecessarily wearing out your SSD. It's probably
> zeroing the drive, which is entirely unneeded in most instances. I'm
> guessing that "reformat /dev/sda" means "wipe it entirely", which is
> unnecessary, just make a new partition table and create a new ext4
> partition on it, assigned to /home.

I am a bit confused now, because:

"just make a new partition table and create a new ext4 partition on
it"

is exactly what I thought I had told the installer to do yesterday
morning, nothing more. Are there other options in there?

At this point the main question is: can I stop the procedure now
WITHOUT bricking the SSD drive, and how, exactly?

TIA,
Marco