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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.os.linux |
| Subject | Re: Formatting an SD card |
| Date | 2016-01-17 16:40 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <dg1ug7Fnte8U3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <dfvocuF8finU1@mid.individual.net> <VA.00000b27.3e41fad8@me.invalid> |
On 2016-01-17, Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> wrote:
> In article <dfvocuF8finU1@mid.individual.net>, Huge wrote:
>> If I try and format it with disk utility, the utility just hangs.
>> If I try and format it with gparted, it says "Scanning
>> /dev/sdc1" for ever.
>
> Disk utility may be a bit too sophisticated for the task in hand ... it
> tries to make sense of the existing filesystem and gets stuck when it
> finds corruptions.
>
> You might have been able to get it to work if you'd used something like
> photorec/testdisk -- or even a simple fsck -- to fix the corruptions
> first.
Couldn't be arsed to fight with fsck - I didn't care about what was on
the card.
> A more basic formatting utility -- such as mkfs -- would probably have
> worked, too.
Good point. It's been so long since I had to use mkfs, I forgot about it.
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