I see, thank you.
I guess I had been using fat32 on small USB drives by default for all these
years (i.e. without wondering what other options were available, because my
needs mostly involved transfers from GNU/Linux to proprietary systems), so
when I decided to use a former live system
Setting 755 permission is far too dangerous. Use chown instead, and set the
permission to 700 (i.e., other users have no access to your files at all).
boba inquired about my experience with the full-up 256GB thumb drive:
What I wrote:
I have another 256GB thumb drive which was never reluctant to accept new
files, but I don't remember
what I did right with that one that I'm not doing today. It's full, too,
however.
"Could you check which
I tried this:
[1] Used GParted on the GPT formatted 4GB drive.
[1.1] Formatted the partition in Ext4 and could not write.
[1.2] Formatted in FAT and could write.
[2] Using Disk, formatted drive as MBR, which is the default option. Tried to
create and format an Ext4 partition. Disk crashed,
I still do not understand why it has been necessary for the OP to change the
rights manually on the newly formatted disk if there has been no specific
options given to GParted (or to Gnome Disk, in my case).
I am glad that the problem was solved thanks to a better knowledge of access
right
Magic Banana comes to the rescue yet again:
"With such permissions, only the owner (root, apparently) can write. You can
change the owner (and the group) with 'chown':"
$ sudo chown -R $USER:$USER Thumb256A
Which I successfully applied as follows:
$ sudo chown -R $USER:$george Thumb256A
I
boba provided some historical experience of successs ...
Actually, GParted performed the necessary operations to remove the original
msdos/ext4 and
replace it with gpt/ext4 in about five minutes; then I used
sudo chmod -R 755 Thumb256B as before, but still its permissions are staying
the
Just today I erased a small (4GB) thumb drive which had some live system on
it, in order to use it for file transfer purposes instead. I could not
copy+paste anything on it because of write protection until I formatted it as
GPT instead of MBR (which is the default option in the Discs
After years of accumulating scan results, my HDD is filled up to within 2GB
of its 1TB capacity, so operations of most kinds are excruciatingly slow. It
really does not like editing 2GB text files in LeafPad.
I acquired a new SanDisk 256GB drive, removed its partition table, and
formatted
the
