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Re: [LUG] USB drives

 
On 16/02/2022 12:27, Paul Sutton via list wrote:



On 16/02/2022 12:11, Mark Thurston wrote:

Dmesg and fdisk will give you more information on what is or isn't happening.
Depending on what has happened, you may need to recreate the partition table using cfdisk and then reformat the partitions using mkfs 



On 16 February 2022 10:52:13 GMT, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    I have been trying to use usb drives lately. One a usb 500 gb ssd drive
    for backing up and one a 64 gb micro sd card for use in an Android
    tablet, and I have borked both of them. Total value £36 so not a
    disaster. But I can't find a way to reformat them in spite of extensive
    googling and that is extremely annoying. There must be some way of
    forcing a basic format of these drives. Gparted won't touch them, msusb
    does nothing and various command line methods have done nothing. A lot
    of methods concentrate on getting data back but I don't want to do that.
    I just want them in a state to get data onto them. Any ideas anybody?

    George


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Given the large amount of output from programs such as dmesg the following may be helpful to the group 

install pastebinit

you can then generate a pastebin entry with

dmesg | pastebinit
This will give you a url to the out of the command output,  if you then copy that here to the list, people can help. 

For me I get the debian pastebin link, but it may vary.

Paul
Good suggestion - I use wgetpaste a lot, and it does the same as pastebinit. There are different options for 'post expiry' from 1 day upwards :) 

There are options for purists like netcat too ..

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