are you running that command while booted on the stick you are trying to
erase?
While that SHOULD work, you are writing over the device you are booted
on, not usually considered best practice ;-) And this
'read-only-filesystem' message is interesting to me, I'd love to have
that stick to play with just to see, but it probably isn't worth it.
Anyway:
I've wanted to come back and say that from what I've seen before the
whole 'drive is toast' path was that the partition you have been trying
to make on the stick appears to have been correctly created and
formatted. This implies you just need to start at that step in the how-to.
But if you are convinced the stick is dead, the cost of time dealing
with it is more than the cost of a new stick, go get a new stick and
start over.
On 1/17/23 06:52, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I tried 'wipe' on it last night. But got the same error message:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
[sudo] password for michael:
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdb': Read-only file system
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 12:03 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:
There is one thing you can try before absolutely tossing it. Run dd as
root with the following code: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
And let her run. That should erase everything on that stick, including
partition info, boot sector and the like.
If there is a problem, dd will very quickly quit with an error.
-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Hardware dispositions
Dept.
On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:23 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:
yeah. I think all is loast. I finally got around to looking at the gparted
report:
========================================
Device: /dev/sdd
Model: SanDisk Ultra
Serial:
Sector size: 512
Total sectors: 60063744
Heads: 255
Sectors/track: 2
Cylinders: 117772
Partition table: none
PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point
/dev/sdd Unpartitioned 0 60063743 iso9660 Kali Live
========================================
*Format /dev/sdd as ext4* 00:00:17 ( ERROR )
calibrate /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
*path: /dev/sdd (device)start: 0end: 60063743size: 60063744 (28.64 GiB)*
clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd 00:00:17 ( ERROR )
write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:17 ( ERROR )
libparted messages ( ERROR )
*Unable to open /dev/sdd read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdd has
been opened read-only.*
*Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*
*Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only.*
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:55 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
any advice before I toss it? I suppose I could buy a chain and wear it
around my neck!
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:53 PM Michael <[email protected]> wrote:
lovely, my 32gb ultra is toast. I started gparted to see if I could
format it and the square showing the partitions and usage is gray (as
well as the file system icon).
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 7:16 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
[email protected]> wrote:
Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:38:57 -0700
For most things, I use USB sticks in
a write once, read many configuration scenario.
Another thing I've found anecdotally that helps lengthen the USB stick
life, whether write once or write a bunch, is to format it as Ext4. I
don't think I ever had one go bad as Ext4, but I have with the windows
format they're shipped with. Of course, if you have to interact with
windows computers or devices expecting windows formated USB sticks, my
trick becomes useless.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm
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