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Author: Michael via PLUG-discuss
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To: PLUG
CC: Michael
Subject: Re: formatted USB to ext4
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}'?

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!

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM Michael <> 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~(-:
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