USB flash drive has alot of problems

EBR · 2022-06-11 22:02:50

currently I study for my collage and i wanted to print some papers in library so i get my flash drive and inserted in my gnome machine to copy pdfs and after its complete coping the inter flash data changes to read only and i couldn't change it so i decided to format it and recopy my pdfs with gnome disk utility to format it and the progress bar stopped so i switched to window 10 and finally able to format the flash and recopy pdfs.

but that wasn't the only encounter with flash problem
the second one was as following:
i have a old laptop with arch linux but using xfce DE i wanted to copy a game file that i downloaded from the laptop to gnome machine so insert usb flash and copy the game file to usb and after awile i found out that the loading bar exited 100% and never ends.

by the way these usb flashes are different and tried kde dolphin but it was the worst of the there.
and i only insert the ubs and let the file manager do the reset.

am i doing something wrong?

thank you

(English isn't my first language so sorry for any mistakes)

seth · 2022-06-12 05:50:47

after awile i found out that the loading bar exited 100% and never ends.

I suspect that means the progress seemed to have stuck at 100% - how long is "never" in this regard?
The progressbar will show how much of the file has been read into the (very fast) buffer, but then just waits for the buffer to be cleared.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263115
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=229109

after its complete coping the inter flash data changes to read only and i couldn't change it

This sounds like there were IO errors (hardware/bus) that lead to a read-only remount of the device. We'd need to see the system journal of that boot to make an informed comment.

Edit: does the USB key(s) use FAT32 or NTFS?

Last edited by seth (2022-06-12 05:51:51)

EBR · 2022-06-12 08:13:51

i don't remember exactly the size of the file i think it was about 4gb and it didn't stuck at 100% i mean exceeded 100% and reach about 130% and it showed completion size exceed the actual size of the file something like this (4.5gb completed of 4gb ) this flash was fat32.
the second one was ntfs and i didn't remove or touch it i just turn off the machine and boot to windows and it worked.

seth · 2022-06-12 12:02:47

it showed completion size exceed the actual size of the file something like this (4.5gb completed of 4gb ) this flash was fat32.
the second one was ntfs

the second one was as following:
… after awile i found out that the loading bar exited 100% and never ends.

This sounds like you mixed things up a bit.
Either way, this sounds like issues w the file system and

i didn't remove or touch it i just turn off the machine and boot to windows

tells me that you need to look at the 3rd link below (mandatory)

As for NTFS: there's ntfs-3g, the slower, but much more mature userspace driver and the brand new ntfs3 in-tree kernel module.
I assume you're using the latter. If you keep experiencing issues w/ nfts (despite having deactivated windows fast boot and fsck'd the FS on the usb key) you should try https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ntfs-3g/

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#1 2022-06-11 22:02:50

USB flash drive has alot of problems

#2 2022-06-12 05:50:47

Re: USB flash drive has alot of problems

#3 2022-06-12 08:13:51

Re: USB flash drive has alot of problems

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Re: USB flash drive has alot of problems

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