Inserting a USB Drive the Right Way

[Pesala]

How to insert USB

[shifte]

@Pesala

[Dancer18]

@Pesala I am irritated by the post. The first stick pictured is supposed to be "wrong", although the third looks the same and is supposed to be "correct".

When the USB symbol is imprinted (this happens more often with plugs than with sticks), it points in the opposite direction, with arrow forward towards the socket.

Please clarify your topic, dear @Pesala.

[derDay]

@Dancer18
it's called humor

[Dancer18]

@derDay Oh I see!

[DoctorG]

@Dancer18 LOL.
I remember something in 2011: the German Piratenpartei suggested to secure data like this:
Source: Piratenpartei Heilbronn https://www.flickr.com/photos/piratenhn/5377850130/

[Dancer18]

@Pesala Here is a similar one from intel:

[Pesala]

@Dancer18 said in Inserting a USB Drive the Right Way:

When the USB symbol is imprinted (this happens more often with plugs than with sticks), it points in the opposite direction, with arrow forward towards the socket.

Interesting that the symbol is reversed. I guess that it an intentional mistake.

Who hasn't faced this issue when trying to insert USB sticks?

[Dancer18]

@Pesala said in Inserting a USB Drive the Right Way:

Interesting that the symbol is reversed. I guess that it an intentional mistake.

I think so too. Apart from the fact that I don't remember ever seeing the sign on a USB stick....

[DoctorG]

My USB sticks do not have such symbol on the case. but i see some USB cables have it, and the arrow of the symbol on these cable points correctly towards the plug.

LOL
"Printing a USB Symbol the Right Way" should be the title of the thread.

[Pesala]

@Dancer18 I have one on my headphones.

[Dancer18]

@Pesala Yes me too. Nearly all plugs of any cable have it.

[barbudo2005]

My solution:

[DoctorG]

@barbudo2005 said in Inserting a USB Drive the Right Way:

My solution:

You are so nasty!

[Dancer18]

[Ryszard]

I guess it's time to buy one

and check if turning up and down will affect plugging.

[LandisTwo]

@Dancer18 , seriously?
You've 'never' put the stick in 'the right way', without looking, it doesn't seem to go, so you flip it over and, oh ya, wrong 'again'.
filip once more, the way you originally had it and, in it goes?
again, seriously?
I thought it 'spot on'.
Landis.

[edwardp]

I have two SanDisk Cruzer Glide flash drives. Simple to insert, button-side up.

I formatted one of them with ext4 when using a prior Linux distro. Today, I can read from it, but cannot write to it, even though the username is the same as when it was first formatted. The prior distro assigned a User ID of 1001 when I added my account during installation, where Debian (and other distros I tried back then in VirtualBoxes) uses 1000. I'm thinking that original User ID is why that particular flash drive is now read-only. I changed the User ID to 1001 to see if that made it writable, but it did not.

The other one, I formatted using VFAT, which does not have that user restriction and can read and write to it using Debian.

I wasn't able to find anything online as to whether the first flash drive's file system could be changed from ext4 to VFAT, without losing the data on it.

[DoctorG]

@Ryszard Haha, that fits in all USB A+B+C, you can insert but can not be sure if they are connected

[Ryszard]

@edwardp said in Inserting a USB Drive the Right Way:

I'm thinking that original User ID is why that particular flash drive is now read-only.

I think you are wrong
Another limitation is that flash memory has a finite number of program – erase cycles (typically written as P/E cycles)
That is - going into a "read-only" state is a normal symptom of PenDrive wear. I have "read-only" PenDrives that have never been connected to a computer running Linux.