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On 06/16/2017 12:26:07 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 15/06/2017 06:26 μμ, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to repair USB disk (64GB) originally formatted with ext4 |
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>> I read the USB stick on Windows via some kind of windows ext4 driver |
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>> now I can not open it on Linux box. |
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>> e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1 |
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>> 64gb: recovering journal |
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>> (just stays there and does nothing). |
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>> when I unplug it I get: |
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>> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to re-open 64gb |
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> If you don't need the files on the stick (as you mentioned on another |
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> post), then I'd recommend formatting it using exfat. Works on both |
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> Linux |
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> and Windows. Emerge sys-fs/fuse-exfat and mounting exfat sticks will |
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> happen automatically, just like as if it was ext4. |
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> To format the stick you can use sys-fs/exfat-utils (it installs |
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> mkfs.exfat.) Or format it under Windows. You probably should erase the |
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> partition first under Linux though so that Windows sees all space as |
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> unclaimed. Just remember to select exfat instead of fat32 when you |
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> format it. |
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I've read that one should use SDFormatter version 4 (on Windows) |
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Helmut |
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