Timeline for Why can I not format my USB mass storage device?
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| Jul 20, 2020 at 11:59 | vote | accept | Magic Smoke | ||
| Jul 17, 2020 at 21:25 | answer | added | RaphaelP | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 19:23 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | You can actually test mkfs by trying to mkfs a file (which simulates a hard drive). You can look up how to make a certain sized file in Linux, then mkfs it. See if it works for 16k and 64k. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 19:17 | comment | added | Magic Smoke | @user253751 so is this a limitation of mkfs? I did some research (see edit), which suggests that this is indeed quite small. But then how come the 64k in the video work? Coincidence? | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 19:14 | history | edited | Magic Smoke | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 624 characters in body |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 18:32 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | 16 kilobytes? Is that the correct size of your device? I think mkfs is telling you that it can't create a filesystem that small. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 17:39 | comment | added | Magic Smoke | @user253751 thank you for the recommendation. I added the requested information. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 17:37 | history | edited | Magic Smoke | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 2180 characters in body |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | Stack Exchange Broke The Law | On Linux, after it fails, run dmesg | tail -n100 and look for I/O related errors and post them here. | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 16:16 | history | asked | Magic Smoke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |