On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM Dave Close dave@compata.com wrote:
I wrote:
I have been trying to create an SDcard to use with an Raspberry Pi. The card is created using the rpi-imager program on Fedora (41) and that program reports the creation as successful. Later, after mounting the ext4 partition on the card under Fedora and doing two or three minutes of exploration, I encounter a bad block. So I unmount the partition and use e2fsck to locate any bad blocks and mark them:
e2fsck -y -c /dev/sdb2
[...] Jeffrey Walton replied:
Throw the old SDcard away, and use a new one.
I intend to. But this isn't a problem with the card.
It sure sounds like it (to me):
> Later, after mounting the ext4 partition on the card under Fedora and > doing two or three minutes of exploration, I encounter a bad block.
Jeff