On 06/16/2017 12:26:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 15/06/2017 06:26 μμ, [email protected] wrote:
I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4
I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver
now I can not open it on Linux box.
e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1
64gb: recovering journal
(just stays there and does nothing).
when I unplug it I get:
e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to re-open 64gb
If you don't need the files on the stick (as you mentioned on another
post), then I'd recommend formatting it using exfat. Works on both
Linux
and Windows. Emerge sys-fs/fuse-exfat and mounting exfat sticks will
happen automatically, just like as if it was ext4.
To format the stick you can use sys-fs/exfat-utils (it installs
mkfs.exfat.) Or format it under Windows. You probably should erase the
partition first under Linux though so that Windows sees all space as
unclaimed. Just remember to select exfat instead of fat32 when you
format it.
I've read that one should use SDFormatter version 4 (on Windows)
Helmut
