<div dir="ltr">I was wondering:<div>The print out on the terminal reads:</div><div><br></div><div>1973729 done, 3:49:08 elapsed. (0/7649/0 errors)</div><div><br></div><div>what does "(0/7649/0 errors)" mean?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm trying to run 'badblocks' but each time I run it get the same thing.<div><br></div><div><div>$ sudo badblocks -b 4096 -c 98304 -p 0 -w -s /media/bmike1/NexStar</div></div><div><div>badblocks: invalid starting block (0): must be less than 0</div></div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>.</div><div>I just googled the error and find:</div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">-Apparently this is Linux-speak for "This program needs the name of a device file, and the programmer was too lazy to have it detect that you supplied the name of the mount point instead".-</span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">How do I discover the device as opposed to the mount point?</span></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Brien Dieterle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:briend@gmail.com" target="_blank">briend@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Almost looks like bad sectors. Might want to try badblocks<br>
<a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind<wbr>ex.php/badblocks</a><br>
Maybe try formatting it ext4<br>
Maybe try another USB port and cable<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 24, 2016 1:21 PM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I really appreciate the help.... It errored out though. Here is what gparted reported:<div><br></div><div><table border="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><b>Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sdd</b> 00:00:37 ( ERROR )</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">create empty partition 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><i>path: /dev/sdd1<br>start: 2048<br>end: 488396799<br>size: 488394752 (232.88 GiB)</i></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058108928 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">flush operating system cache of /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">set partition type on /dev/sdd1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><i>new partition type: ntfs</i></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2">create new ntfs file system 00:00:37 ( ERROR )</td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><b><i>mkntfs -Q -v -L "NexStar" /dev/sdd1</i></b></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><i>Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.<br>Creating NTFS volume structures.<br>Creating root directory (mft record 5)<br>Creating $MFT (mft record 0)<br>Creating $MFTMirr (mft record 1)<br>Creating $LogFile (mft record 2)<br>Creating $AttrDef (mft record 4)<br>Creating $Bitmap (mft record 6)<br>Creating $Boot (mft record 7)<br>Creating backup boot sector.<br>Creating $Volume (mft record 3)<br>Creating $BadClus (mft record 8)<br>Creating $Secure (mft record 9)<br>Creating $UpCase (mft record 0xa)<br>Creating $Extend (mft record 11)<br>Creating system file (mft record 0xc)<br>Creating system file (mft record 0xd)<br>Creating system file (mft record 0xe)<br>Creating system file (mft record 0xf)<br>Creating $Quota (mft record 24)<br>Creating $ObjId (mft record 25)<br>Creating $Reparse (mft record 26)<br>Syncing root directory index record.<br>Syncing $Bitmap.<br>Syncing $MFT.<br>Updating $MFTMirr.<br>Syncing device.<br></i></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><i>Failed to sync device /dev/sdd1: Input/output error<br>Syncing device. FAILED</i></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Get gparted and use it to take a look. Lots of USB drives have some wonky trick they use. </p>
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