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.
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If I use media-writer and then need to reuse the stick to put an audio
book on it for my digital audio player I have to clear it with fdisk or
Gparted before I can save to it in the terminal. I guess I would really
like to not have that read only flag set when I put the iso file on one.
Perhaps I should be using something other than media-writer?
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 creates a bootable drive with a FAT file system. It also allows
using overlays and separate home directory, but it's also not as simple
as media writer.
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. Whatever, it should work in
Fedora and my daughter's Mac portable, as well as the digital audiobook
player which is probably expecting Windows stuff.
FAT32 is the usual portable filesystem.
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