Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Formatting an SD card Date: 17 Jan 2016 16:40:39 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net iW/CS7qH5p8OxeRNpj7sfgpwsw1NTeSPQtPJldO+Ri61r/nfq5 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QxYHlWwyaXU9PBA7v/ij8Qnbgjs= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:19729 On 2016-01-17, Daniel James wrote: > In article , 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. -- Today is Boomtime, the 17th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.