When your USB stick goes readonly and fails to mount

TLDR{ A USB stick that I used for backup suddenly turned readonly and failed to mount If it is still readable, make a backup first If it is an ext[2,3,4] fs, use the ro,noload options to mount it }TLDR I've been using a SanDisk 128GB USB stick as a backup device for ~5 years now. Recently it failed to show up when plugged in, so I had to scramble to see what went wrong. The annotated list of…