formatted USB to ext4

[Michael]

I'lll try 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{device}' to see if I can rescue
this drive.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:46 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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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>
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> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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