<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 1:05 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">are you running that command while booted on the stick you are trying to <br>
erase?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Of course not. Always unmount the device.</div><div>I threw it away before I got this message so....</div><div>But the other drive.... look at the other thread.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
While that SHOULD work, you are writing over the device you are booted <br>
on, not usually considered best practice ;-) And this <br>
'read-only-filesystem' message is interesting to me, I'd love to have <br>
that stick to play with just to see, but it probably isn't worth it.<br>
<br>
<br>
Anyway:<br>
<br>
<br>
I've wanted to come back and say that from what I've seen before the <br>
whole 'drive is toast' path was that the partition you have been trying <br>
to make on the stick appears to have been correctly created and <br>
formatted. This implies you just need to start at that step in the how-to.<br>
<br>
But if you are convinced the stick is dead, the cost of time dealing <br>
with it is more than the cost of a new stick, go get a new stick and <br>
start over.<br>
<br>
On 1/17/23 06:52, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> I tried 'wipe' on it last night. But got the same error message:<br>
> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb<br>
> [sudo] password for michael:<br>
> dd: failed to open '/dev/sdb': Read-only file system<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <<br>
> <a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> There is one thing you can try before absolutely tossing it. Run dd as<br>
>> root with the following code: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb<br>
>> And let her run. That should erase everything on that stick, including<br>
>> partition info, boot sector and the like.<br>
>><br>
>> If there is a problem, dd will very quickly quit with an error.<br>
>><br>
>> -Eric<br>
>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware dispositions<br>
>> Dept.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:23 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <<br>
>> <a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> yeah. I think all is loast. I finally got around to looking at the gparted<br>
>> report:<br>
>><br>
>> ========================================<br>
>> Device: /dev/sdd<br>
>> Model: SanDisk Ultra<br>
>> Serial:<br>
>> Sector size: 512<br>
>> Total sectors: 60063744<br>
>><br>
>> Heads: 255<br>
>> Sectors/track: 2<br>
>> Cylinders: 117772<br>
>><br>
>> Partition table: none<br>
>><br>
>> PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point<br>
>> /dev/sdd Unpartitioned 0 60063743 iso9660 Kali Live<br>
>><br>
>> ========================================<br>
>> *Format /dev/sdd as ext4* 00:00:17 ( ERROR )<br>
>><br>
>> calibrate /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> *path: /dev/sdd (device)start: 0end: 60063743size: 60063744 (28.64 GiB)*<br>
>> clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd 00:00:17 ( ERROR )<br>
>><br>
>> write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:17 ( ERROR )<br>
>><br>
>> libparted messages ( ERROR )<br>
>><br>
>> *Unable to open /dev/sdd read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdd has<br>
>> been opened read-only.*<br>
>> *Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*<br>
>> *Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:55 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> any advice before I toss it? I suppose I could buy a chain and wear it<br>
>>> around my neck!<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:53 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> lovely, my 32gb ultra is toast. I started gparted to see if I could<br>
>>>> format it and the square showing the partitions and usage is gray (as<br>
>>>> well as the file system icon).<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:16 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <<br>
>>>> <a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:38:57 -0700<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>>> For most things, I use USB sticks in<br>
>>>>>> a write once, read many configuration scenario.<br>
>>>>> Another thing I've found anecdotally that helps lengthen the USB stick<br>
>>>>> life, whether write once or write a bunch, is to format it as Ext4. I<br>
>>>>> don't think I ever had one go bad as Ext4, but I have with the windows<br>
>>>>> format they're shipped with. Of course, if you have to interact with<br>
>>>>> windows computers or devices expecting windows formated USB sticks, my<br>
>>>>> trick becomes useless.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> SteveT<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Steve Litt<br>
>>>>> Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times<br>
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