creation of ext4 filesystem takes 20+ hours???

[Colin Law]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 09:37, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Then (if you have not already got a bootable Linux system on the
machine) I sugest booting off a live USB and use gparted to format the
drive as you want it before you start, rather than relying on the
installer to format it.

Colin