formatted USB to ext4

Michael bmike1 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 06:31:40 MST 2023


I was kinda oopy last night (I didn't google a solution to how to fix it )
but I just did and found out how to set the partition table. But which
should I choose? I've heard gpt mentioned but am unsure. Could I hear some
opinions from the learnED here?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> in my other thread I looked at a gparted report. Well it had something
> related to this thread. In the report it is mentioned that file system
> type is ext4 but that the partition table  is msdos. Does that matter.How
> should it be fixed if it does?
>
> ========================================
> Device: /dev/sdb
> Model: SanDisk Ultra
> Serial:
> Sector size: 512
> Total sectors: 240353280
>
> Heads: 255
> Sectors/track: 2
> Cylinders: 471280
>
> Partition table: msdos
>
> PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point
> /dev/sdb1 Primary 2048 240353279 ext4
> /media/michael/5d19820a-dfe9-4a0f-8593-9339e9b4ecd2
>
> ========================================
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay,  I spent the last thirty minutes copying all the files from the fat
>> fomatted drive to a folder on the desktop. Then I formatted the drive to
>> ext4. Now I can't drag the files back on to the USB drive. I suppose I
>> could chmod -r 777 the drive but what is the right way to do it?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>
>
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>


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