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?
