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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