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Subject: Re: glabel problem
To: Lee Brown <leeb@ratnaling.org>
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Lee Brown wrote on 2017/04/22 21:38:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:

>> This is really strange. It seems faulty to me.
>>
>> There are other things you can try:
>> 1) try to create gpt partition of a small size - about 4GB a test geli on
>> it. If it works then try to destroy this partition and create it again but
>> big, about 10MB smaller than the device size (maybe there is some problem
>> at the end of the device)
>>
>> 2) if it is not working with geli, try it with simple gpart GPT + newfs
>> UFS or with ZFS. Once you have ZFS on it, you can put some files on it and
>> then run zfs scrub - if device is faulty there should be some checksum
>> errors in zpool status output.
>>
>
> Thanks for that tip.  4GB worked and after some chopping I found over 8GB
> failed.
> Therefore I believe I've purchased an 8GB flash disk that's been engineered
> to report 1TB.
> I very much appreciate your help Miroslav -- lee

It's sad. I hope you can return it to the seller and get your money back!