Please explain how you mean 'the data last longer'?
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:28 AM Michael wrote:
> sorry. last longer was the wrong verbage. Mister Litt must have been the
> gentleman who said it. But do you do anything special when you format it
> ext4?
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:43 PM
sorry. last longer was the wrong verbage. Mister Litt must have been the
gentleman who said it. But do you do anything special when you format it
ext4?
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:43 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said
Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700
>I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any
>longer than another type of format.
Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience,
formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer
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
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 <
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
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 8:29 AM Michael 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.
>
. again. It acted normal
A couple of observations from me:
1. When formatting a disk with parted, all it does is format, it doesn't set
permissions on anything. On filesystems that have permissions like ext4, you'll
still have to set the appropriate permissions. After you mount the disk for the
first time, you can set
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 <
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
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 wrote:
> I'lll try 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{device}' to see if I can rescue
> this
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 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
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
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
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?
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