The problem with removable devices is that you need to unmount then before you remove them, and you can't reliably format a mounted device. And, Dan Ritters advice is good. Brand name USB SSD drives are pretty reliable, but there are a lot of scams out there. Dick Miller was pointing out a number of bogus 32TB ssd drives sold at Walmart. Personally, I would not buy any computer related stuff at Walmart. Samsung, SanDisk, and Crucial are good brands. I've been using a samsung 1TB USB drive for my dashcam for the last year.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 2:50 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > dan moylan wrote: > > > > dan moylan once wrote: > > > running fc36 on lenevo thinkpad T460 > > moylan BCKUP1n[1089] touch foo > > touch: cannot touch 'foo': Read-only file system > > moylan BCKUP1n[1090] ls -l > > total 20K > > drwxr-xr-x. 3 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 backintime/ > > drwx------. 2 root root 16K 220910:1525 lost+found/ > > moylan BCKUP1n[1091] ls -l ../ > > total 4.0K > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 moylan moylan 8 220911:1756 BCKUP1 -> BCKUP1n// > > drwxr-xr-x. 4 moylan moylan 4.0K 220910:1532 BCKUP1n/ > > moylan BCKUP1n[1092] ls -l ../../ > > total 0 > > drwxr-x---+ 3 moylan moylan 80 220911:1756 moylan/ > > > > backintime started out ok, but then got hung up. > > Read dmesg/syslog reports. Odds are good the memory stick has > had many errors and been switched to read-only. > > Buy a new one. > > -dsr- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
