From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: Troubleshooting pendrive ext2fs Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:32:32 -0600 Message-ID: <20090818223232.GP5931@webber.adilger.int> References: <4A8B289E.5000701@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Casimiro de Almeida Barreto Return-path: Received: from sca-es-mail-1.Sun.COM ([192.18.43.132]:36227 "EHLO sca-es-mail-1.sun.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751462AbZHRWce (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:32:34 -0400 Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-1.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n7IMWZ3t026327 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Content-disposition: inline Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.04 64bit (built Jul 2 2009)) id <0KOL00J00FOR3L00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> for linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:32:35 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <4A8B289E.5000701@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Aug 18, 2009 19:18 -0300, Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote: > I've trouble creating an ext2/ext3/ext4 file system in a 64GBytes pendrive. 99.99% chance this is a device or driver failure, not ext2/3/4 related. Try writing to the raw device and seeing if that works (e.g. use "llverdev" tool from Lustre, or just "dd" with a known pattern and then md5sum to verify it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.