linux-ext4 - Re: Troubleshooting pendrive ext2fs

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Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:32:32 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Casimiro de Almeida Barreto <casimiro.barreto@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Troubleshooting pendrive ext2fs

On Aug 18, 2009  19:18 -0300, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> I've trouble creating an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system in a 64GBytes pendrive.

99.99% chance this is a device or driver failure, not ext2/3/4 related.
Try writing to the raw device and seeing if that works (e.g. use
"llverdev" tool from Lustre, or just "dd" with a known pattern and
then md5sum to verify it.


Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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