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I have an external 2TB HDD that i plan on leaving attached to my ubuntu server. I am trying to format it to ext4 but am encounterin issue



My current setup is a 200gb ssd in the server (sdb), 2x2TB HDD's that are Raid0 (sdc,sdd), and the external hdd i'm trying to format (sda)



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
[sudo] password for ubnt:
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 1.8T
sdb 111.8G
├─sdb1 ext4 976M /boot
├─sdb2 1K
└─sdb5 LVM2_member 110.9G
├─ubnt--vg-root ext4 103.2G /
└─ubnt--vg-swap swap 7.6G [SWAP]
sdc linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0
sdd linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0


When i try to create the ext4 file system on the hdd it gets stuck for ages at "Writing superblock... 730/14905" (always at the same number) and then gives an error:



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
Creating filesystem with 488378112 4k blocks and 122101760 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bcca6fda-7429-41c2-9cba-31705fe1d791
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 730/14905
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.


I tried sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda but it gave no errors.



What can i do to make this disc usable?










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  • Delete all the partition with fdisk and try. if still fails please check disk it may have bad sectors.

    – asktyagi
    May 2 at 14:16

















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I have an external 2TB HDD that i plan on leaving attached to my ubuntu server. I am trying to format it to ext4 but am encounterin issue



My current setup is a 200gb ssd in the server (sdb), 2x2TB HDD's that are Raid0 (sdc,sdd), and the external hdd i'm trying to format (sda)



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
[sudo] password for ubnt:
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 1.8T
sdb 111.8G
├─sdb1 ext4 976M /boot
├─sdb2 1K
└─sdb5 LVM2_member 110.9G
├─ubnt--vg-root ext4 103.2G /
└─ubnt--vg-swap swap 7.6G [SWAP]
sdc linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0
sdd linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0


When i try to create the ext4 file system on the hdd it gets stuck for ages at "Writing superblock... 730/14905" (always at the same number) and then gives an error:



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
Creating filesystem with 488378112 4k blocks and 122101760 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bcca6fda-7429-41c2-9cba-31705fe1d791
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 730/14905
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.


I tried sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda but it gave no errors.



What can i do to make this disc usable?










share|improve this question






















  • Delete all the partition with fdisk and try. if still fails please check disk it may have bad sectors.

    – asktyagi
    May 2 at 14:16













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I have an external 2TB HDD that i plan on leaving attached to my ubuntu server. I am trying to format it to ext4 but am encounterin issue



My current setup is a 200gb ssd in the server (sdb), 2x2TB HDD's that are Raid0 (sdc,sdd), and the external hdd i'm trying to format (sda)



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
[sudo] password for ubnt:
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 1.8T
sdb 111.8G
├─sdb1 ext4 976M /boot
├─sdb2 1K
└─sdb5 LVM2_member 110.9G
├─ubnt--vg-root ext4 103.2G /
└─ubnt--vg-swap swap 7.6G [SWAP]
sdc linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0
sdd linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0


When i try to create the ext4 file system on the hdd it gets stuck for ages at "Writing superblock... 730/14905" (always at the same number) and then gives an error:



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
Creating filesystem with 488378112 4k blocks and 122101760 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bcca6fda-7429-41c2-9cba-31705fe1d791
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 730/14905
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.


I tried sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda but it gave no errors.



What can i do to make this disc usable?










share|improve this question














I have an external 2TB HDD that i plan on leaving attached to my ubuntu server. I am trying to format it to ext4 but am encounterin issue



My current setup is a 200gb ssd in the server (sdb), 2x2TB HDD's that are Raid0 (sdc,sdd), and the external hdd i'm trying to format (sda)



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
[sudo] password for ubnt:
NAME FSTYPE SIZE MOUNTPOINT LABEL
sda 1.8T
sdb 111.8G
├─sdb1 ext4 976M /boot
├─sdb2 1K
└─sdb5 LVM2_member 110.9G
├─ubnt--vg-root ext4 103.2G /
└─ubnt--vg-swap swap 7.6G [SWAP]
sdc linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0
sdd linux_raid_member 1.8T ubnt:0
└─md0 ext4 3.7T /mnt/md0


When i try to create the ext4 file system on the hdd it gets stuck for ages at "Writing superblock... 730/14905" (always at the same number) and then gives an error:



ubnt@ubnt:~$ sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda
Creating filesystem with 488378112 4k blocks and 122101760 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bcca6fda-7429-41c2-9cba-31705fe1d791
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 730/14905
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.


I tried sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda but it gave no errors.



What can i do to make this disc usable?







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  • Delete all the partition with fdisk and try. if still fails please check disk it may have bad sectors.

    – asktyagi
    May 2 at 14:16
















Delete all the partition with fdisk and try. if still fails please check disk it may have bad sectors.

– asktyagi
May 2 at 14:16





Delete all the partition with fdisk and try. if still fails please check disk it may have bad sectors.

– asktyagi
May 2 at 14:16










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For some reason this solved it (not entirely sure why now cause i'm sure i had done this. maybe a restart helped it:



sudo fdisk /dev/sda
n
p
*defaults. Press enter all the way through*
w


That created sda1 under sda, so i followed with



sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1





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    sudo fdisk /dev/sda
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    p
    *defaults. Press enter all the way through*
    w


    That created sda1 under sda, so i followed with



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      sudo fdisk /dev/sda
      n
      p
      *defaults. Press enter all the way through*
      w


      That created sda1 under sda, so i followed with



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        sudo fdisk /dev/sda
        n
        p
        *defaults. Press enter all the way through*
        w


        That created sda1 under sda, so i followed with



        sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1





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        For some reason this solved it (not entirely sure why now cause i'm sure i had done this. maybe a restart helped it:



        sudo fdisk /dev/sda
        n
        p
        *defaults. Press enter all the way through*
        w


        That created sda1 under sda, so i followed with



        sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda1






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