formatted USB to ext4

[Michael]

well, the sticks are san disk...
In any case someone said that to get long life out of them to format as
ext4 and I was wondering how he did it. I was directing that question
into the either not at you in particular.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:10 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> In my case, I didn’t format as EXT4.
>
> Btw, this issue sounds unique to a specific brand of Chinese made USB
> sticks. There was one 64GB stick I had in inventory that would malfunction
> in this manner whenever I tried to format in anything other than a standard
> MBR/NTFS/FAT32 arrangement. I gave up on it and strictly use it on the
> windows laptop.. btw,  I also discovered, much to my disappointment that
> some brands of SD card will not, under any circumstances, support a GPT
> based boot loader. Tried on windows last night with Diskpart and it barfed
> stating that the operation was not supported. Tried it on my OS X machine
> and it worked just fine. Haven’t tried it on the other linux laptop as yet.
>
> -Eric
> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware Research and
> Development Dept.
>
>
> On Jan 19, 2023, at 6:29 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> But it seems that when I formatted my devices to ext4 it made them read
> only. How did you format them? I think that because after I set partition
> type to msdos and format to ntfs the device acted as normal.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:21 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> GPT is definitely preferred for anything over 32GB as that will allow for
>> greater filesystem size. I routinely set that flag on any device I have
>> that requires access above the 32GB 32 bit limitation. Since that covered
>> virtually all devices in my inventory now, it’s just prudent to set it this
>> way. I also format EXFaT so that I can use said devices across the broadest
>> possible OS platforms.
>>
>> -Eric
>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, HDD refurbishment Dept.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2023, at 6:31 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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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