openSUSE 11.4 / kernel 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop / Gnome 2.32.1 I have been using SDHC flash cards for data backups, reformatting them as ext4 with LUX encryption. This has worked very nicely with a mixture of cards from various manufacturers, but now I've come across a problem one. The card is a SanDisk 16gb SDHC 'standard version' (their words) that refuses to format as anything other than FAT. It seemed to format OK, but when mounting it fails (with the all too familiar log message of 'JBD: no valid journal superblock found' and 'EXT4-fs (dm-1): error loading journal'). I messed around with it for a while, using both the Yast2 formatter utility (from 11.4) and the Gnome gui utility (Disk Utility 2.32.0), but no joy. Here are a few of the error messages I recorded... ============== Error deleting partition An error occurred while performing an operation on "New Volume" (Partition 1 of Generic- Multi-Card): The operation failed Details Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, offset=16384 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=16526606336) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 16384, size 16526589952, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected got it got disk got partition - part->type=8 refusing to delete a metadata partition ==================== The partitioning on disk /dev/sdc is not readable by the partitioning tool parted, which is used to change the partition table. You can use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are. You can format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk with this tool. ===================== Error Operation not permitted on disk /dev/sdc ! The partitioning on your disk /dev/sdc is either not readable by the partitioning tool parted used to change the partition table or is not supported by this tool. You may use the partitions on disk /dev/sdc as they are or format them and assign mount points to them, but you cannot add, edit, resize, or remove partitions from that disk here. ===================== I have a support inquiry in to SanDisk, but I'm not real hopeful of getting a response real soon. Anyone here know what's going on with this card? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org