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Re: Formatting an SD card

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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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    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 21:34 +0000
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  Re: Formatting an SD card Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-16 22:08 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:55 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-17 14:04 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-17 16:40 +0000
      Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:06 +0000
        Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-18 12:39 +0000
          Re: Formatting an SD card Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-01-20 15:50 +0000
            Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-20 17:16 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card The Real Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-28 17:38 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-28 18:00 +0000

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