creation of ext4 filesystem takes 20+ hours???

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 09:36 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> 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?

Reset or power of the computer. I can't imagine anything done by the
installer, that can brick a SSD. Unfortunately you can't use a SSD as a
bookend, fortunately it's most likely undamaged. A process hangs, if you
won't wait for the next blackout, there aren't much options.