[TriLUG] short read on mke2fs

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

This problem appears in google, but no-one has an answer.

I have a 120G disk that I want to use. Currently it's in an 
external USB box.

I ran badblocks (rw), no errors; partition, and then mke2fs 
with

mke2fs -j /dev/sda?

For the last partition, the mke2fs gets stuck at about 5% 
the way through the disk and then after a pause appears to 
complete the rest of the process, apparently formatting it. 
At the end mke2fs exits with

Writing inode tables: done
ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted 
in short read while creating root dir

The partition doesn't have a file system on it.

Rerunning with

mke2fs -c -j /dev/sda4

doesn't stop at the spot 5% the way through (I let it go 
half way through the ro check - I stopped it before it got a 
chance to make the fs).

Any ideas?

Thanks Joe

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