[Bradford] Wonky new USB stick

[David Carpenter]

I had a bit of a nightmare with a large USB stick (flash drive).
I'm fairly sure it wasn't formatting to ext4 properly - despite looking as
though it had.
I then tried to use it as msdos or NTFS - probably both, but data just
didn't seem to always transfer to it.
This was one of those where I had about 100 different theory's but none I
could pin down.
Long file names, was perhaps a problem on the MS formats.
In the end set up a raid server, and just gave up on the stick!
Sorry that's very vague. But it drove me bonkers, so might be worth
spending on e.g a 1TB external drive if permissions are not the solution.

Good luck
David

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022, 22:19 John Robert Hudson via Bradford, <
bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi Darren
>
> This is almost certainly a permissions issue. Assuming you have formated
> it
> with Linux partitions, they will have inherited the permissions of the
> user
> who formated it.
>
> If you then copy data to and from it, the permissions work in the same way
> as
> if you copied data between two different users.
>
> The simple answer is to access it as root and then there should be no
> problems. The better answer is to sort out the permissions.
>
> John
>
> On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 20:19:50 BST Darren Drapkin via Bradford wrote:
> > I have recently purchased a 128GB pendrive. I happily loaded most of my
> Open
> > University data onto it, hoping to have a backup and data ferry between
> my
> > computers.
> >
> > I now  have a largely empty pendrive that is complaining that it is read
> > only. I want to put more stuff on it, any suggestions ?
> >
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> > Darren Drapkin
> >
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