usb marked as read-only

[Michael]

any advice before I toss it? I suppose I could buy a chain and wear it
around my neck!

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:53 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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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