gparted is failing me.It is a logical partition(/dev/sdc10) labled /home. It is 48 GB large. here is my attempt at using mkfs: michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/opt' '/dev/sdc10' 00:00:03 [sudo] password for michael: mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks '00:00:03' on device '/dev/sdc10' michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/opt' '/dev/sdc10' 500 mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) /dev/sdc10 contains a ext4 file system created on Sun Jul 25 21:38:59 2021 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Filesystem too small for a journal Discarding device blocks: done Creating filesystem with 125 4k blocks and 64 inodes Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/opt' '/dev/sdc10' 125 4k mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) Usage: mkfs.ext4 [-c|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-C cluster-size] [-i bytes-per-inode] [-I inode-size] [-J journal-options] [-G flex-group-size] [-N number-of-inodes] [-d root-directory] [-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os] [-g blocks-per-group] [-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory] [-O feature[,...]] [-r fs-revision] [-E extended-option[,...]] [-t fs-type] [-T usage-type ] [-U UUID] [-e errors_behavior][-z undo_file] [-jnqvDFSV] device [blocks-count] michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/opt' '/dev/sdc10' 125 mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) /dev/sdc10 contains a ext4 file system labelled '/opt' created on Sun Jul 25 21:47:13 2021 /dev/sdc10: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/home' '/dev/sdc10' 125 mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) /dev/sdc10 contains a ext4 file system labelled '/opt' created on Sun Jul 25 21:47:13 2021 /dev/sdc10: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock michael@MyNUC:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/home' '/dev/sdc10' 125 mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) /dev/sdc10 contains a ext4 file system labelled '/opt' created on Sun Jul 25 21:47:13 2021 /dev/sdc10: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock michael@MyNUC:~$ Hmmmmmmm.... not enough space? But gparted says: All operations completed successfully though the error report says otherwise (including saying I created a MSDOS partition when I created ext4 partitions). (error report) 48.00 GiB of unallocated space within the partition. To grow the file system to fill the partition, select the partition and choose the menu item: Partition --> Check. and I run the partition check and the result is: GParted 1.0.0 configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize libparted 3.3 ======================================== Device:/dev/sda Model:ATA KINGSTON SUV500M Serial:50026B7783458A92 Sector size:512 Total sectors:468862128 Heads:255 Sectors/track:2 Cylinders:919337 Partition table:msdos PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point /dev/sda2Extended2046468860927bootextended /dev/sda6Logical2048410267647ext4/home /dev/sda5Logical410267648468860927ext4/ ======================================== Device:/dev/sdc Model:USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 Serial:none Sector size:512 Total sectors:240353280 Heads:255 Sectors/track:2 Cylinders:471280 Partition table:msdos PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point /dev/sdc1Primary32240353279lbafat32 ======================================== Delete /dev/sdc1 (fat32, 114.61 GiB) from /dev/sdc 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) calibrate /dev/sdc1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc1 (partition) start: 32 end: 240353279 size: 240353248 (114.61 GiB) delete partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) ======================================== Create Extended Partition #1 (extended, 114.61 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc1 (partition) start: 2048 end: 240353279 size: 240351232 (114.61 GiB) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #2 (ext4, 200.00 MiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc5 (partition) start: 4096 end: 413695 size: 409600 (200.00 MiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc5 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209190912 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209649664 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209707008 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc5 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext4 create new ext4 file system 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/boot' '/dev/sdc5' 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Creating filesystem with 51200 4k blocks and 51200 inodes Filesystem UUID: 296fdc84-e20a-4796-92ed-1c161b3701db Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (4096 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #3 (ext4, 19.53 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:08 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc6 (partition) start: 415744 end: 41375743 size: 40960000 (19.53 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc6 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 20970995712 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 20971454464 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 20971511808 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc6 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext4 create new ext4 file system 00:00:06 ( SUCCESS ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/' '/dev/sdc6' 00:00:06 ( SUCCESS ) 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Creating filesystem with 5120000 4k blocks and 1281120 inodes Filesystem UUID: 8dce917e-6a31-4121-914d-b2fe3235c921 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #4 (linux-swap, 2.11 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:04 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc7 (partition) start: 235935744 end: 240353279 size: 4417536 (2.11 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc7 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 2261254144 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 2261712896 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 2261770240 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc7 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: linux-swap(v1) create new linux-swap file system 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) mkswap -L '' '/dev/sdc7' 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 2.1 GiB (2261774336 bytes) LABEL=, UUID=ea5b83f8-f164-402f-8d2b-ef20ed7d0430 ======================================== Create Logical Partition #5 (unformatted, 1.00 MiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc8 (partition) start: 41377792 end: 41379839 size: 2048 (1.00 MiB) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #6 (ext4, 200.00 MiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:05 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc9 (partition) start: 41381888 end: 41791487 size: 409600 (200.00 MiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc9 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209190912 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209649664 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 209707008 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc9 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext4 create new ext4 file system 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/boot' '/dev/sdc9' 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Creating filesystem with 51200 4k blocks and 51200 inodes Filesystem UUID: dc1ef0e5-fa9f-40b5-aa31-23c36e15960e Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (4096 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #7 (ext4, 7.81 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:09 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:02 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc10 (partition) start: 41793536 end: 58177535 size: 16384000 (7.81 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc10 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 8388083712 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 8388542464 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 8388599808 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc10 00:00:03 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext4 create new ext4 file system 00:00:03 ( SUCCESS ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/opt' '/dev/sdc10' 00:00:03 ( SUCCESS ) 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Creating filesystem with 2048000 4k blocks and 512064 inodes Filesystem UUID: dbe1eb24-e142-4b4f-8433-d66620ab0b14 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (16384 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #8 (ext4, 29.30 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:14 ( SUCCESS ) create empty partition 00:00:03 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sdc11 (partition) start: 58179584 end: 119619583 size: 61440000 (29.30 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdc11 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 31456755712 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 31457214464 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 31457271808 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sdc11 00:00:05 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext4 create new ext4 file system 00:00:06 ( SUCCESS ) mkfs.ext4 -F -O ^64bit -L '/usr/src' '/dev/sdc11' 00:00:06 ( SUCCESS ) 64-bit filesystem support is not enabled. The larger fields afforded by this feature enable full-strength checksumming. Pass -O 64bit to rectify. Creating filesystem with 7680000 4k blocks and 1921360 inodes Filesystem UUID: 4f65f26e-da3a-41e2-af7a-5e4f08ee9cdf Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020) ======================================== Create Logical Partition #9 (ext4, 55.46 GiB) on /dev/sdc 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) create empty partition 00:00:00 ( ERROR ) libparted messages ( ERROR ) Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss