<div dir="ltr">why does the transfer rate of dd slow? When I starte paying attention to it it was about 15MB/s but now (about 2 minutes later) it is 7MB/s (and it is still slowing).</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'lll try 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{device}' to see if I can rescue this drive.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:46 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I thought creating a gpt partition table would fix it but I was wrong. This time I clicked on the offending drive in the file manager and a 'permission denied' message appeared. So I suppose I will have to chmod it. The proper command would be 'chmod -r 777 {device}'? <div><br></div><div>Wait a second.... I seem to remember that this is a sign of a disk going bad. Is this so? Two devices going bad at the same time? Talk about bad luck!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?<div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">========================================</p><table style="border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align:left">Device:</th><td>/dev/sdb</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Model:</th><td>SanDisk Ultra</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Serial:</th><td></td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Sector size:</th><td>512</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Total sectors:</th><td>240353280</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Heads:</th><td>255</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Sectors/track:</th><td>2</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Cylinders:</th><td>471280</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:left">Partition table:</th><td>msdos</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><th style="text-align:left">Partition</th><th style="text-align:left">Type</th><th style="text-align:right">Start</th><th style="text-align:right">End</th><th style="text-align:left">Flags</th><th style="text-align:left">Partition Name</th><th style="text-align:left">File System</th><th style="text-align:left">Label</th><th style="text-align:left">Mount Point</th></tr><tr><td>/dev/sdb1</td><td>Primary</td><td style="text-align:right">2048</td><td style="text-align:right">240353279</td><td></td><td></td><td>ext4</td><td></td><td>/media/michael/5d19820a-dfe9-4a0f-8593-9339e9b4ecd2</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium">========================================</p><table style="border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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?<div><div>--<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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