usb marked as read-only

[Michael]

I fixed the drive I didn't throw away! I put the msdos partition table back
on it and format it ntfs and it is happily accepting files again. How did
you format it ext4? Did you change the partition table?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 7:26 PM Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 1:05 PM Rusty Carruth via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> are you running that command while booted on the stick you are trying to
>> erase?
>>
>>
> Of course not. Always unmount the device.
> I threw it away before I got this message so....
> But the other drive.... look at the other thread.
>
>
>> While that SHOULD work, you are writing over the device you are booted
>> on, not usually considered best practice ;-)  And this
>> 'read-only-filesystem' message is interesting to me, I'd love to have
>> that stick to play with just to see, but it probably isn't worth it.
>>
>>
>> Anyway:
>>
>>
>> I've wanted to come back and say that from what I've seen before the
>> whole 'drive is toast' path was that the partition  you have been trying
>> to make on the stick appears to have been correctly created and
>> formatted.  This implies you just need to start at that step in the
>> how-to.
>>
>> But if you are convinced the stick is dead, the cost of time dealing
>> with it is more than the cost of a new stick, go get a new stick and
>> start over.
>>
>> On 1/17/23 06:52, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > I tried 'wipe' on it last night. But got the same error message:
>> > sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
>> > [sudo] password for michael:
>> > dd: failed to open '/dev/sdb': Read-only file system
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
>> > plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> There is one thing you can try before absolutely tossing it. Run dd as
>> >> root with the following code: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
>> >> And let her run. That should erase everything on that stick, including
>> >> partition info, boot sector and the like.
>> >>
>> >> If there is a problem, dd will very quickly quit with an error.
>> >>
>> >> -Eric
>> >>  From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware
>> dispositions
>> >> Dept.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:23 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> >> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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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