Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 ian 22, 16:39:31, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Many of the raspbian distributions have a #1 partition > that is a small fat32 lba partition for Windows users to be able > to activate debian from Windows. Is this even necessary once one > is using unix tools on the disk? At least f

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Martin McCormick
There's always one more question that nobody mentions and none of the articles one finds on the topic don't touch. When looking at the man page for resize2fs in debian, it talks about the -b option to turn on "the 64 bit feature." __ When shrinking the size of the partition, make

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 20:40, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 18:22:37 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > The failure mode for these cards is typically that the whole thing goes > away, not that a single sector goes bad. As soon as one starts acting flaky, > just toss it. FWIW, I've an USB stick here (128GB) with an EXT4 file sys

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:35PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 18:22:37 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > >>> David Wright writes: > I've not heard of that proble

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old but I think it is still good but the suggestion to use it in a less

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: >>> >>> On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >>> David Wright writes: I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the entire d

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >> David Wright writes: >>> I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the >>> entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. >>> >>> W

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing someth