Hi, I have a removable hard drive whose layout is shown in the screenshot. There are about 140 G of unallocated space on the right. I am trying to create an ext 4 partition of the rightmost 30G of that unallocated space with gparted and get the following error
Code:
create new ext4 file system 00:01:41 ( ERROR )
mkfs.ext4 -j -O extent -L "test" /dev/sdb7
Filesystem label=test
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
2621440 inodes, 10479360 blocks
523968 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=0
320 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 81/320
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.
I have created partitions on different parts of the 140G (now) unallocated space in the past without problems.However, trying to use the last 30Gs always failed. In fact before I cleaned up my clutters today I used to make /dev/sdb2 the extended partition to exclude the last 30G and everything was fine. I am wondering if that part of the hard drive is damaged and if there is a way to reclaim it.
Thanks.
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