On 10-06-20 01:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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.

The file system itself could also be corrupt.  If it were my drive I
would copy of the data I could, then I would reformat the USB drive.
>>
>>   
>>> 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 ...
> 
<snip>
> 
> ... but sometimes I just drag and drop.
> 
> I wish to keep FAT32, because of all that idio.., äh, friends who run 

Then you should mount the drive manually, with the "iocharset=utf8"
option.  If you use this device a lot, you may wish to consider creating
a custom udev script for this device.  There are a number of howtos for
this on the net.

> 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 :(.

You may have to reformat the drive.

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