I know some USB devices when they reach a critical fault level will go read-only when there are no longer any write cycles that can be safely applied. like SSD's But I haven ever run into it to verify.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 2:23 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

creating persistence means I want to use the drive as if it were the main drive.

The verbose flag is a big v? I tried the little v!

    sudo fsck -V $usb

   [sudo] password for michael:          
   fsck from util-linux 2.37.2

Same thing.

   sudo fsck -Vf /dev/sdb ; echo $?
   fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
   0

I think the zero means there is nothing wrong with the drive.

"You don't say what you booted on - the USB drive?  And what device is that?"

What do you mean? I'm trying to run thOS from the pen drive? THe device is /dev/sdb?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 2:00 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I think it is probably too early to say if you need a new drive, and I
don't know what you mean by 'create persistence', but I'll stick my foot
in my mouth and ask a few questions.

You don't say what you booted on - the USB drive?  And what device is that?

When you run fsck, I suggest you use the -V option (verbose). Also, what
is the return code from fsck? that is:

sudo fsck -Vf /dev/sdb ; echo $?

what number is the last thing before your next prompt?

Did you boot from device /dev/sda?  Is anything mounted from /dev/sdb?
(e.g. what does 'df -h' say (as one option))

Finally, it is safer to do the fdisk commands manually and not use the
'printf' trick.  This works for me on all my systems:

echo $usb ; sudo fdisk $usb

(then I enter the commands to fdisk to create a new partition, or whatever)

Oh, the very first thing I should have asked is, what does 'ls -l
/dev/sdb' say?

On 1/16/23 11:34, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> maybe that is why it ran out of space?
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 12:06 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> HI. On my Kali Live USB drive I am trying to create persistence. I did it
>> once but then something happened (it ran out of space when I tried to
>> install snort) so I started over. But when I tried tpo create persistence I
>> got the read-only error. YOu know in my search to get it out of read-only I
>> discovered that it might mean my file system is corrupted.. But when I ran
>>     $ sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb
>> it just responded
>>     fsck from util-linux 2.37.2
>> then when I attempted to follow the directions (that worked before:
>>     sudo fdisk $usb <<< $(printf "n\np\n\n\n\nw")
>>     Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.37.2).
>>     Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
>>     Be careful before using the write command.
>>     fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Read-only file system
>> I'm thinking I need a new drive. Anything the gurus know that would be
>> beneficial before I spend the money on a new drive??
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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