[Solved] Failed to format flash drive after recent update(3/6/2013)

Hello,
I'm experiencing failure at formatting my flash drive to ext2,3,4, fat32(or possibly any possible format).
This happens after the recent system update which includes filesystem, I wonder if that's the reason.
So I followed the instructions here : https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
and I start to fail at formatting my flash drive using mkfs, while mkfs on live CD 2013.05.01 works perfectly.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by darrenldl (2013-06-04 14:41:04)

I once had a very odd occurrence that - being an isolated incident - I still don't really understand.  But it seemed no matter what I did I could not erase data from a flash drive.  I'd dd from /dev/zero, reformat, put it on a different computer, and it'd indeed be empty.  But then when I plugged it back in to my computer it showed up as populated with a bunch of files that used to be on it.
It seemed like there must have been a filesystem created on my own harddrive that was being mounted to the mount point when the usb drive was detected - so what I was seeing wasn't really on the usb, but was on my drive.
I don't know if it is possible to accidentally format a mount point rather than a device - I would think it should fail, but I can't help but wonder if something like that is going on: when the usb is plugged into your machine, the locally created filesystem is being mounted, but when you plug the usb into another computer, it's obviously not there.
Some steps that may avoid whatever could cause this:
1) reboot to have a fully fresh start.
2) make sure any automounting utilities are disabled
3) partition/dev/sdX and format /dev/sdXn as usual
4) sync, to ensure all disk io is flushed.

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