formatted USB to ext4

[Michael]

why does the transfer rate of dd slow? When I starte paying attention to it
it was about 15MB/s but now (about 2 minutes later) it is 7MB/s (and it is
still slowing).

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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~(-:
>>>>>
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