Gustin Johnson wrote:
> On 10-06-19 01:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>   
>> ... without reformat the USB stick?
>>
>> rm: cannot remove `/media/INTENSO/a64/spinymouse/.gnome2/\036^5oD.∙╫\b': 
>> Read-only file system
>> rm: cannot remove 
>> `/media/INTENSO/a64/spinymouse/.gnome2/÷╫wé\034|ft.╗∞N': Input/output error
>>
>>     
> The Input/Output error is bad (I usually see it when dealing with
> failing hard drives).  It happens when weird things go on with USB
> devices.  Removing and re-inserting is usually a good idea.
>
>   
>> There might be hundreds of similar files. Most of the times I save files 
>> by TAR to the FAT32 stick, but usually just drag'n'drop files are ok too.
>>
>> After this 'errors' I need to disconnect and connect the stick again, 
>> but after doing this, I'm able to e.g. run
>>
>> $ sudo rm -rf /media/INTENSO/a64/spinymouse/.profile
>>
>> and it did remove .profile.
>>     
>
> There are some significant limitations to all of the FAT filesystems.
> As you are probably using localization settings (ie. your language is
> not set to en-us), I would recommend not just copying your home
> directory to a FAT filesystem.  Use tar and compression to preserve
> UTF-8 characters and permissions.  When you copy things back from a FAT
> filesystem that meta data is lost.
>   
>> I tried the shred command, chmod ;) and much more esoteric tricks on 
>> Suse and 64 Studio without success.
>>     

The language of my Linuxes is set to en-us. Encoding for the file system 
'should be' UTF-8. Of cause for important backups I'm using TAR ...

spinymouse-s...@64studio:~$ ls -hAl /media/INTENSO
total 4.7G
-rwx------ 1 spinymouse-sudo root 3.0G 2010-06-19 01:18 
64studio3.0beta3_19Jun2010-0.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 spinymouse-sudo root 853M 2010-06-03 16:55 
64studio3.3alpha_03Jun2010-0.tar.gz
-rwx------ 1 spinymouse-sudo root 862M 2010-06-19 00:50 
64studio3.3alpha_19Jun2010-0.tar.gz
drwx------ 3 spinymouse-sudo root 4.0K 2010-06-18 23:46 a64
drwx------ 4 spinymouse-sudo root 4.0K 2010-06-05 09:06 a64~pre06-slide
drwx------ 3 spinymouse-sudo root 4.0K 2010-01-13 01:22 all-in-one_supplier
drwx------ 4 spinymouse-sudo root 4.0K 2010-01-13 00:54 devoid_of_meaning
-rwx------ 1 spinymouse-sudo root  512 2010-04-14 22:02 
MBR_pre_64studio3.3alpha1_IDE
-rwx------ 1 spinymouse-sudo root  512 2010-04-14 22:02 
MBR_pre_64studio3.3alpha1_SATA
drwx------ 2 spinymouse-sudo root 4.0K 2010-06-09 18:59 TMP_Backup

... but sometimes I just drag and drop.

I wish to keep FAT32, because of all that idio.., äh, friends who run 
other OSs and it also is an advantage when I wish to update my BIOS. I 
fear that the USB stick is broken :S. I had the same stick before and 
got a new because of the warranty, resp. there might be an issue for 3.3 
alpha.

Hm, I guess I should try to 'delete' the files one by another using a 
disk monitor/editor :(.

Anyway, I hope to get a 'better' answer, but I expected what I thought 
myself :(.

Anyway, thank you :),

Ralf
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