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The operant line is:

for count in 1 2 3 4; do mkdir /mnt/sdb$count; mount /dev/sdb$count /mnt/sdb$count; done
"sudo su" just grabs superuser privileges (because you need them to create the...

This, again, misses the point. I'm not looking to block
the images. I'm trying to convey useful information, and the
forum is setting me up for failure because it parses (on a fairly
arbitrary...

For posts more than a couple of paragraphs, I generally will preview. But for things shorter than that, I anticipate that the forum can't mangle it too badly with formatting, and so I just post and...

Well. When the forum decides to exhibit really retarded behavior, it is VERY IMMEDIATELY noticeable, and so I'm sure to immediately hit "edit" and correct the (really stupid default) from smilies to...

Maybe the literal:

rm -f "Baldo_2006-07-01?gif"

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Of course the alternative is backup everything else of value, reformat the filesystem, and restore the content.

Looking back, and thinking again about the original question:
Have you considered copying the content of fat3, reformatting the partition as ext3 or similar, and copying the content back so Linux...

Interesting question.

Possible solutions.
1.) create a group "lsdiscs" (low security discs) and make all the users members of lsdiscs and chown the devices to group lsdiscs. Possible problem,...

You could install a caching proxy on your machine and tell the browser to use the proxy instead of the direct connection.
Of course, I don't know if youtube/others have flagged their...

Right. I know those checkboxes are there. My problem is that I should not have to think to check the box for (my paraphrase) "disable retarded behavior" for each and every thread I start or post...

Well. A full boot probably takes a little longer than a fast boot and restore from hibernation. Though depending on how much (little) you're running on the server, a full boot may be faster than a...

This is the script I crafted, and tweaked to do my backups (as incremental dated backups, using hardlinking between them to save on prevented duplication, each dated backup capable of being copied...

I don't always wrap information in Code blocks. Especially if I'm explaining something conversationally.

Is there NO option, to change the behavior (at least individually) to auto-default to not...

Is the root account maybe configured to use a shell that is either not valid, or refuses login?

If you've reconfigured anything, have you restarted the services (like SSH)?

So many little...

May not be the case in your case, but in dealing with multiple machines and/or multiple VMs, I've made incorrect assumptions about IP addresses and ended up trying to log into the wrong machine/VM....

The problem is not that they look stupid, or that I want them converted back to useful information locally.
The problem is that I'm trying to help people in the help forum, and the forum is setting...

Is there a way to tweak my profile to have the "disable smilies in this post" always automatically checked in my posts/replies?
I don't use smilies. They've ALWAYS been useless to me, and especially...

Well, I'll try a little math and see what happens.

Disc 1, 1Tb (roughly, 1000Gb)
931Gb usable after formatting (using 1024^3 bytes per real Gb) (as supplied by gparted in 1st post)
818Gb used...

EXT3 typically reserves 5% of the partition's size for superuser/root only access (and indirectly to help with preventing fragmentation). So if you're looking at the partitions with tools that see...

Threads about interoperability with windows, are a primary case pointing to an entire family of threads I care very little (if at all) about, and have NO reason to take an interest in.

Not all...

The drive may have changed locations (virtually, if not physically), so it may be sdc, sdd, sde, etc.

Back to the title of the thread, what happened to cause the "corruption" of the usb stick?

Many tools anticipate some (fairly reasonable) default conditions (like "I'm working on a partition of a drive" for mkfs.[almost everything]) but have options for dealing with "fringe case" incidents...

THAT is part of the problem. In that they are differentiated from "you haven't looked at this" threads, they evoke a "what is it about this thread that drew me initally?" reaction. To which the...

/dev/sdb is the "root" device which has the partition table and all the partitions on it. Typically, unless you intentionally formatted the whole device as a filesystem instead of creating one...

I don't rely on my bean count to indicate to anyone that my posts are of quality. I count on the quality, helpfulness, or thought-provoking nature of my posts to stand on their own.

I just think...

Personally, I use HandBrake. (http://handbrake.fr/)
I don't recall if it is in the Ubuntu or debian repositories or if you have to add the Handbrake repository to install it.