well, the sticks are san disk... In any case someone said that to get long life out of them to format as ext4 and I was wondering how he did it. I was directing that question into the either not at you in particular. On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:10 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > In my case, I didn’t format as EXT4. > > Btw, this issue sounds unique to a specific brand of Chinese made USB > sticks. There was one 64GB stick I had in inventory that would malfunction > in this manner whenever I tried to format in anything other than a standard > MBR/NTFS/FAT32 arrangement. I gave up on it and strictly use it on the > windows laptop.. btw, I also discovered, much to my disappointment that > some brands of SD card will not, under any circumstances, support a GPT > based boot loader. Tried on windows last night with Diskpart and it barfed > stating that the operation was not supported. Tried it on my OS X machine > and it worked just fine. Haven’t tried it on the other linux laptop as yet. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware Research and > Development Dept. > > > On Jan 19, 2023, at 6:29 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > But it seems that when I formatted my devices to ext4 it made them read > only. How did you format them? I think that because after I set partition > type to msdos and format to ntfs the device acted as normal. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:21 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < > plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > >> GPT is definitely preferred for anything over 32GB as that will allow for >> greater filesystem size. I routinely set that flag on any device I have >> that requires access above the 32GB 32 bit limitation. Since that covered >> virtually all devices in my inventory now, it’s just prudent to set it this >> way. I also format EXFaT so that I can use said devices across the broadest >> possible OS platforms. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, HDD refurbishment Dept. >> >> >> On Jan 17, 2023, at 6:31 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss < >> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: >> >> 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 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 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~(-: >>> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: