System config: Rock Pi 4b
eMMC (16gb): Debian 9
ACER M2 NVMe SSD 1TB
sshing into the Rock pi running headless.
Issue: Not able to format M2 NVMe SSD 1TB Actual Result: Rock Pi, wifi stopped working and a blue or green light start flashing from the top side of rock pi Expected Result: Writing superblocks and fielsystem accounting information: Done and Rock Pi should remain responsive.
In order to use the SSD for storage, I wants to partition, format and mount (auto) it. I’m able to partition it using sudo fdisk /dev/nvme0n1 command. However, when I move forward to format this partition using sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1, then after 2 minutes while on “Writing superblocks and fielsystem accounting information” step, Rock Pi seems crashed and never complete this step.
I’m not able to reconnect to Rock Pi, until I reboot Rock Pi.
Rock pi showing offline (on router connected devices settings).
I’m also noticing that Rock Pi, wifi stopped working and a blue or green light start flashing from the top side of rock pi, every time I try to format nvme0n1p1 partition. (I tried 3 times)
Thanks for replying. As I mentioned in another post of mine what power adapter, I’m using with Rock Pi4b. Apart from that power adapter, I have another Power adapter for my phone with following specs. Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (QC3.0): 18 Watt USB-A output: 5V/3A, 9V/2A, 12V/1.5A)
Do you think, I should change Power adapter and again try to format the partition on m2. nvme SSD (1 tb)?
Last night, I left Rock Pi running after running the sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1 command for almost 5 hours (Even after ssh connection dropped & blue/green light start flashing the top of Rock Pi.) in a hope that flashing is still working and once its complete, the light stopped blinking, however, it didn’t happened and I had to reboot rock pi.
Moreover, can someone give me an Idea, how much time it normally takes mkfs.ext4 to complete formatting 1tb m2. nvme SSD?
@jack I tried to format m2. nvme SSD again. This time instead of connecting over wifi, I choose ethernet in hope that this will work. However, this even didn’t work.
I captured some error logs to share, if someone can suggest something useful out of it. 01- Screenshot of running the format command.
So on the wireless turning off if you are connecting over that you’ll need change the default setting for power save to 2 from 3 which is the default.
$ sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
Contents of file should like this before changes
[connection]
wifi.powersave = 3
Edit wifi.powersave = 3 to wifi.powersave = 2
save file
$ sudo shutdown -h --reboot now
Note: if you are also connected via ethernet you can do ifdown and ifup on the wireless connection
