Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/7/20 11:33 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Interesting. I remember that gparted had exfat greyed out and at that time vfat32 looked like the best option and I used that, However I later simply used mkfs -t vfat. The stick I had was a new 64 GB and originally showed 64 in my Thunar file manager di

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-07 10:33, George N. White III wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:00, Samuel Sieb > wrote: FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. FAT32 is the current usual but "future *has been*" portable filesystem.    FAT32 doesn't allocate partial blocks, so a direct

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 at 04:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. > FAT32 is the current usual but "future *has been*" portable filesystem.FAT32 doesn't allocate partial blocks, so a direct copy of some linux directory often results in a very large loss of free spac

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-07 03:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: Media writer might just be dumping the iso onto the drive.  In that case it's read-only because the iso filesystem is read-only. You need to reformat it to be able to write. I prefer to use the cli tool livecd-iso-to-disk which unpacks the iso and c

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread Tim via users
Bob Goodwin: >> Also what file system should I use from the selection offered by >> gparted? Today I tried "vfat32". Later changed that to "vfat" >> with mkfs, but I'm never sure what I should use. Samuel Sieb: > FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem. Don't you still get file size limits with

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-07 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 5:06 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 2020-06-06 18:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "read-only files".  But you should be able to use any partition editor to delete whatever partitions are there and create new ones.  gparted, gnome-disks, fdisk, etc. __ ° If I use

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 2020-06-06 18:27, Samuel Sieb wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "read-only files".  But you should be able to use any partition editor to delete whatever partitions are there and create new ones.  gparted, gnome-disks, fdisk, etc. __ ° If I use media-writer and then need to reuse the

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 2:47 PM Bob Goodwin wrote: > When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that > I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for > something other than media-writer. > > What should I do to clear the drive? > If you use Fedor

Re: Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/6/20 12:46 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for something other than media-writer. What should I do to clear the drive? I'm not sure what you mean by "read

Media writer/USB Flash -

2020-06-06 Thread Bob Goodwin
When I put a Fedora .iso on a flash drive it leaves read-only files that I always have difficulty clearing if I want to reuse the flash drive for something other than media-writer. What should I do to clear the drive? -- Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD FEDORA-32/6