On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:43:07 -0800 (PST) Joe Pruett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If that doesn't work, I suspect that your thumb drive has gotten > > corrupted or is going bad. Try copying everything off and > > reformatting. If that doesn't work, you're probably stuck with buying a > > new one. :-( Fortunately, they're not very expensive these days. > > some thumbdrives have a read-only switch. make sure you haven't hit that. > same for sd cards. I was worried that Drew's experience would become mine - a dead stick. But I managed to write all of the contents to a DVD drive for safekeeping, even though I'm pretty sure everything on it is backed up elsewhere anyway. Then I went to reformat it. I couldn't figure out exactly how to do it with mkfs, probably "mkfs vfat /dev/sdb1," but not being sure I decided to use Gparted instead. After ages of poking through OpenSuse menus (why is everything three levels deep so you have to click four times to launch an app?), I couldn't find Gparted. Command line didn't help. OK, back to YaSt. Sure enough, not installed. After installing Gparted I formatted it Fat32 and subsequently was able to read and write to it. Problem solved, I hope. I think something bad happened because I was using it to copy my Mail folder and new config files as I wiped out one distro and installed a new one. One of the distros probably managed to goober it up, probably one of the ones using Gnome 2.8.0, because in 2.8.0 Nautilus is as messed up as the rest of the desktop. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
