[arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

[Don Raikes]

I am trying badblocks to see what I get, but on a 1tb drive it looks like it will take a very long time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ary Kleinerman [mailto:akleinerman at buinet.com.ar] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 7:51 PM
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
Subject: Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

besides you can use "badblocks"
Warning because it could be data destructive.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks

Regards,

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Simon Brand <simon.brand at postadigitale.de> wrote:
> Am 12.03.2014 19:38, schrieb 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,
>>>
>>> I downloaded the talkingarch-20140203-dual.iso yesterday and want to install it onto my desktop system.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I booted into the talkingarchlinux system no problems, and used parted to create the partitions on my hard disk.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When I go to format the partitions, as soon as I enter the command:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> # mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The entire system locks up. I have to do a hard reboot of the system to get anything working again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any idea why this might be happening?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Ary Kleinerman
>> Building Networks S.A.
>> Córdoba, Argentina
>> +54 351 5544150
>>
>
> You can use smartctl to verify a hd problem.
>



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