Re: formatted USB to ext4

2023-01-20 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 20 Jan 2023 20:55:17 -0700 >I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any >longer than another type of format. Just speaking for myself, subjectively after quite a bit of experience, formatting Ext4 makes the *data* last longer th

Re: formatted USB to ext4

2023-01-20 Thread Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
I don’t see how any type of format can make any usb stick last any longer than another type of format. It’s the hardware that eventually breaks down and causes anyone problems. How good the hardware is built that will help it last, not really the format. I have a couple of San disk usb sticks an

Re: formatted USB to ext4

2023-01-20 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
well, the sticks are san disk... In any case someone said that to get long life out of them to format as ext4 and I was wondering how he did it. I was directing that question into the either not at you in particular. On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:10 PM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.p

Re: formatted USB to ext4

2023-01-20 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
In my case, I didn’t format as EXT4. Btw, this issue sounds unique to a specific brand of Chinese made USB sticks. There was one 64GB stick I had in inventory that would malfunction in this manner whenever I tried to format in anything other than a standard MBR/NTFS/FAT32 arrangement. I gave up

openvpn

2023-01-20 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
How do I access files on a remote network using openvpn? Everything I am finding with google is connecting to the external server but not how to access files on said server. Or wait... maybe I set open vpn up suuccessfullly! Next I would ssh the file? ssh {user}@{servers ip address (found in if