[arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

[Don Raikes]

Hi Ary,

I tried using:

# mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1

And got the same results.
After a reboot, I tried:
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3

And got a lot of messages about how there is a problem with the disk, so I am now suspecting that my hdd has gone bad, so I will need to wait on installing arch until I have a new drive.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ary Kleinerman [mailto:akleinerman at buinet.com.ar] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:27 AM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
Subject: Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

Have you tried with other filesystem type, to see what happens? Maybe it could be a bug

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Don Raikes <DON.RAIKES at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I downloaded the talkingarch-20140203-dual.iso yesterday and want to install it onto my desktop system.
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> I booted into the talkingarchlinux system no problems, and used parted to create the partitions on my hard disk.
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> When I go to format the partitions, as soon as I enter the command:
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> # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1
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> The entire system locks up. I have to do a hard reboot of the system to get anything working again.
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> Any idea why this might be happening?



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