What is the model of this thing? It could be that the electronics doing the USB-Sata bridge is stomping on part of disk.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 2:39 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:23:11 -0700 > wes <[email protected]> dijo: > > >Nothing jumps out at me there as being problematic. So I guess it's > >time to try again. > > I tried again, and still no luck, but then I tried mkfs.ext2, and that > worked. I now have a filesystem that I can mount, although it shows up > as owned by root. However, this is less than ideal, as (apparently) > ext2 cannot do labels. It now appears as '252 GB Volume' instead of the > label that I gave it with ext4 '256GB-1.' The problem is that I have > two of these devices, and I am easily confused. I want my label. Plus, > why should I settle for a filesystem that was superseded many years > ago? And it bothers me that it can't be formatted ext4. What is wrong > with this drive? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
