usb marked as read-only

[Michael]

yeah. I think all is loast. I finally got around to looking at the gparted
report:

========================================
Device: /dev/sdd
Model: SanDisk Ultra
Serial:
Sector size: 512
Total sectors: 60063744

Heads: 255
Sectors/track: 2
Cylinders: 117772

Partition table: none

PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point
/dev/sdd Unpartitioned 0 60063743 iso9660 Kali Live

========================================
*Format /dev/sdd as ext4*  00:00:17    ( ERROR )

calibrate /dev/sdd  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )




*path: /dev/sdd (device)start: 0end: 60063743size: 60063744 (28.64 GiB)*
clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd  00:00:17    ( ERROR )

write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:17    ( ERROR )

libparted messages    ( ERROR )

*Unable to open /dev/sdd read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdd has
been opened read-only.*
*Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*
*Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:55 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> Steve Litt
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>>
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