Hello Joe. Hello group. Thank you so much for your Emails. How can I make an USB stick only readable but not writable? How can I make an USB stick which is only readable again writable?
Thank you. Regards, Sophie ________________________________ Von: Joe <j...@jretrading.com> Gesendet: Freitag, 30. Dezember 2022 21:49 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Betreff: Re: Topic: Problems with USB Sticks On Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:16:31 +0000 debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Hello group. Hello Joe. > > Thank you for your Email. > > > > Sorry, I did bad asking. > > So I split the question. > > > > 1 > > How can I repair USB stick which is readable but not writable? > > > > question 2 > > What did I do wrong to create this problem? > > You didn't tell us what you actually did, and especially which bits > you think might be a mistake, so it's very difficult for us to answer > this question. > > For example, you might have hit them with a hammer, or connected them > to the wrong voltages, or washed them in a bath, or who knows what? Or > you might have plugged them in correctly but used some sequence of > commands that has caused a problem. But until you tell us what you > did, we can't know which bit was wrong! > I mentioned probably the simplest thing: failing to unmount before removal on a Windows machine. This sometimes causes problems which cause Linux to refuse to mount the device read/write. Windows can usually fix it, though I suppose there may be data loss. It's entirely possible that doing the same thing on Linux would sometimes cause similar problems. -- Joe
