Trouble formatting flash disk

[Eric Sandeen]

Casimiro de Almeida Barreto wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a pendrive (flash memory) which lists in /proc/bus/usb/devices as:

...

> And I've tried to format it as ext2 (so I can backup my home directory).
> It happens that no matter what I do (and I've tried almost everything)
> it formats but no matter what I do when I record a large file (2GBytes)
> it generates file system inconsistencies.
> 
> First I thought that perhaps the device was defective. But when I try to
> write and read it, everything seems to be OK. It even passes badblock -w ...
> 
> Any suggestions on what may be wrong?

Could you take this to the linux-ext4 list?  It'd be the more
appropriate place for the discussion.

It'd be good to know the details of the errors you see, too.

Thanks,
-Eric

> Best regards,
> 
> CdAB
>