I would like to erase a SSD under Fedora 32 using nvme utility and I get this message : "LBA Format specified is not supported".
nvme --version
nvme version 1.10.1
nvme list
Node : /dev/nvme0n1
Namespace : 1
Format : 512 B + 0 B
sudo nvme id-ctrl /dev/nvme0n1 -H
fna : 0
[2:2] : 0 Crypto Erase Not Supported as part of Secure Erase
[1:1] : 0 Crypto Erase Applies to Single Namespace(s)
[0:0] : 0 bFormat Applies to Single Namespace(s)
sudo nvme format -s1 /dev/nvme0n1
You are about to format nvme0n1, namespace 0x1.
Namespace nvme0n1 has parent controller(s):nvme0
WARNING: Format may irrevocably delete this device's data.
You have 10 seconds to press Ctrl-C to cancel this operation.
Use the force [--force|-f] option to suppress this warning.
Sending format operation ...
NVMe status: INVALID_FORMAT: The LBA Format specified is not supported. This may be due to various conditions(0x10a)
I tried to add the -lb=0 option as mentioned in the comments here but I got the same message.
Could you please help me to find out what's going wrong ? Thank you.
1 Answer
Finally I found the solution here :
"I put the computer to sleep and then, after resume, the lock was released and the format command was ok."
Thanks for reading.
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