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Re: Formatting an SD card

From	Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.os.linux
Subject	Re: Formatting an SD card
Date	2016-01-17 14:04 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<VA.00000b27.3e41fad8@me.invalid> (permalink)
References	<dfvocuF8finU1@mid.individual.net>

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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.

A more basic formatting utility -- such as mkfs -- would probably have 
worked, too.

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.

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Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 20:44 +0000
  Re: Formatting an SD card Chris Whelan <cawhelan@prejudicentlworld.com> - 2016-01-16 21:31 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 21:34 +0000
    Re: Formatting an SD card Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-16 22:54 +0000
  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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