lovely, my 32gb ultra is toast. I started gparted to see if I could format it and the square showing the partitions and usage is gray (as well as the file system icon).

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:16 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:38:57 -0700

>For most things, I use USB sticks in
>a write once, read many configuration scenario.

Another thing I've found anecdotally that helps lengthen the USB stick
life, whether write once or write a bunch, is to format it as Ext4. I
don't think I ever had one go bad as Ext4, but I have with the windows
format they're shipped with. Of course, if you have to interact with
windows computers or devices expecting windows formated USB sticks, my
trick becomes useless.

SteveT

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