I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any longer than another type of format. It’s the hardware that eventually breaks down and causes anyone problems. How good the hardware is built that will help it last, not really the format. I have a couple of San disk usb sticks and I’ve had them for about 6 years and another one of a different brand for 8 years. They were formatted with fat32. But I have also another stick which is started to have problems of reading or writing to it. I have had to format it several times over the years. But remember that when applying power to electronics it can cause break down after a while.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023, at 19:16, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > 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@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@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> 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> 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> 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> 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. 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