Just created a flash drive install disk for Ubuntu 19.10, and the filesystem is read-only. I fear that I'll run into something stupid like additional drivers needed for Ethernet (Intel I211-AT), ...
If you run fsck with the -c switch it should test for badblocks and mark them as bad (assuming you're using ext2 or ext3) so they won't be used again by the filesystem.
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