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@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@lists.phxlinux.org <mailto:plug-discuss@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@lists.phxlinux.org <mailto:plug-discuss@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 <bmi...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bmi...@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 >> >> Partition Type Start End Flags Partition Name File System >> Label Mount Point >> /dev/sdb1 Primary 2048 240353279 ext4 >> /media/michael/5d19820a-dfe9-4a0f-8593-9339e9b4ecd2 >> ======================================== >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Michael <bmi...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bmi...@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~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > <mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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