GParted 0.32.0 --enable-online-resize Libparted 3.2 Create Primary Partition #1 (ext3, 232.88 GiB) on /dev/sda 00:27:03 ( ERROR ) create empty partition 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) path: /dev/sda1 (partition) start: 2048 end: 488396799 size: 488394752 (232.88 GiB) clear old file system signatures in /dev/sda1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250057588736 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058047488 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) write 8.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 250058104832 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) flush operating system cache of /dev/sda 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) set partition type on /dev/sda1 00:00:01 ( SUCCESS ) new partition type: ext3 create new ext3 file system 00:27:02 ( ERROR ) mkfs.ext3 -F -L '' '/dev/sda1' 00:27:02 ( ERROR ) Creating filesystem with 61049344 4k blocks and 15269888 inodes Filesystem UUID: 067d1004-a048-4bce-95fd-ab34c90741c8 Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done mke2fs 1.44.4 (18-Aug-2018) ext2fs_mkdir: Input/output error while creating root dir ========================================