Any storage device with a USB interface (USB stick, USB hard disk, …).
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Unable to successfully format 64G USB flash drive on centos 6.2/ centos 6.3
I have unsuccessfully tried to format and mount a 64 G USB flash drive. The error that I get in dmesg is
**"JBD: no valid journal superblock found
EXT4-fs (sda1): error loading journal"**
I am ...
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1answer
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Remove USB flash-drive write-protection
I have a sports-watch which has an integrated flash-memory. This flash-memory is used to store training information. When I connect the watch to my computer using the USB cable, it's detected as ...
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Quick USB pendrive formatting under KDE
Is there some way to quickly format a USB pendrive in KDE (with a GUI interface), without having to open the main "KDE Partition Manager"?
In particular I'm most interested in something like a ...
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9answers
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How to install CentOS 6 via USB mass storage device?
I want to install CentOS 6.2 on a laptop (Thinkpad R40) which comes without CD/DVD-drive but with USB 2.0 ports.
It seems that CentOS does not provide ready-to-use dd-able USB images for ...
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1answer
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Do USB emulators exist for Linux?
I'm looking for software that lets me have many virtual USB drives on my Ubuntu installation. I want them to be seen by virtual machines in VirtualBox so I can do backup operators. I need the drives ...
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CentOS doesn't see USB device
I'm running CentOS 6.3 inside of VirtualBox and am having trouble seeing my USB 2.0 thumb drive.
In VirtualBox I go to Devices, USB drives and can capture my connected thumb drive. I've created a ...
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Debian install fails on USB-HDD
After my internal HDD broke in my laptop, I've tried to install Debian 6.0.6 on my external HDD. Please note that everything runs great when installing Ubuntu, but for some reason while the Grub stage ...
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1answer
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Linux on Hard Drive Partition, Bootloader on USB Flash Drive
How can I use a USB flash drive to boot Linux from a partition on (another) hard drive?
I'm trying to install Linux on an encrypted partition on the hard drive (using LVM on LUKS).
Since /boot must ...
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1answer
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slitaz 4.0 grub2 loopback concatenate multiple initrd images
I'm trying to get slitaz 4.0 ISO to boot using a grub2 loopback on a multiboot USB;
insmod font
if loadfont /boot/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
insmod gfxterm
# insmod efi_gop
# insmod efi_uga
...
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How to auto-sync with a plugged-in USB mass storage device?
I have (at the moment) three mobile USB mass storage devices (flash drive, phone, e-reader). I'd like to always have the latest versions of all my files with me (such as CV, passport, research papers, ...
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1answer
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Data transfer between ATmega16 microcontroller and Linux?
Can any one tell me how can I know status of any pin of an ATmega16 microcontroller using Ubuntu?
When I connect ATmega16 to my system a file in /dev/ is created by name ttyUSB0. I am using an ...
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1answer
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What is the service that's responsible for automounting a USB drive in CentOS 6.4?
I know of the legacy Linux way of mounting a USB stick or drive: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/
But in some CentOS 6.x installations I saw, you just insert the USB stick and CentOS automagically mounts it, ...
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How to re-mount a USB stick after unmounting from Nautilus without disconnecting it?
I find that in order to re-mount a USB stick, I have to physically disconnect it, and then re-connect it. How can I do this without such tiring physical action?
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How to reconnect a logically disconnected USB device?
It is possible for a USB storage device to become logically disconnected: the device is still plugged in, but is invisible from the operating system (e.g. it's not listed under /proc/bus/usb). Maybe ...
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How do I install Red Hat Linux 9.0 Shrike from a USB drive?
I have a desktop PC which does not have a CD drive and does not have access to the Internet or other networks.
I want to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 "Shrike" on it using a 8GB USB flash drive.
I have ...
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1answer
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How to guarantee writes are physically committed before reported completed?
When my system boots, as it probes the external, USB-attached hard drive, I get the message Assuming drive cache: write through in the dmesg output, tagged with the device name of the external drive.
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Fixing ssd card filesystem
While transferring media, my sansa was disconnected due to cable issue, and now I cannot remove the broken folders from the ssd card in windows. Format did not work, so I've decided to solve it quite ...
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USB mount doesn't work on Centos 6.4
I have a problem. After an update, my USB drives are not mounted automatically and I'm unable to mount them manually...
The output of my fdisk -l command is:
Disk /dev/sdb: 15.8 GB, 15762194432 ...
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Fedora 18 safe remove usb drive
How can I safe remove a usb drive from the Gnome 3.6.2 GUI? This feature used to be available in the past (up to 16, I haven't used 17) from the Desktop and Computer tab in nautilus.
The eject arrow ...
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1answer
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Grub2, boot into existing OS option?
I've got Grub2 installed on a USB stick, and I want to add an entry to the grub.cfg that will boot in to another bootloader e.g. grub on the main harddrive.
Like how the Windows 7 install disk will ...
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1answer
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USB copy hangs for a while when reach the 100%
When I copy files of a considerable size (for example right now one of 689MB) to a USB stick, the copy hangs at 100% for 5 min or more.
I have tried both Nautilus and rsync --progress. With the ...
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Is there a robust way to cache contents of usb on local hd?
I'd like to switch between working on a laptop with a debian vm and a desktop pc running debian while carrying all my work files in a usb. Is there a robust way to automatically start caching the ...
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Mount a USB disk in Linux which was not properly unmounted in Windows
I would like to know if there is a software solution in Linux for the following situation:
Connect a USB disk to a Windows host (could be XP, Vista,7 , etc).
Copy a big file to the USB disk.
...
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1answer
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External drive not being recognized
I am currently running elementary OS (a Linux OS based on Ubuntu so everything in Ubuntu works in it) - dual booting it with Windows 8.
I have a 3TB external hard drive (USB 3.0) that does not seem ...
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Why is my unmounted USB disk still seen by `fdisk`?
I've mounted my USB disk to /mnt/kingston/ dir, and umounted it from there by typing in umount /mnt/kingston/.
But I can still see my USB disk after issuing the fdisk -l command. Why?
If I type ...
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1answer
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How to format USB drive in Linux Mint 14 with GUI? [duplicate]
I'm new to Linux Mint and I've just installed Linux Mint 14. Now I need to format my USB drive, but I'm not getting any option to do that.
Please suggest me anyone, how can I do that with a GUI?
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2answers
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Eject USB drives / eject command
I know that the eject command can be used to eject almost any hardware component attached, but can it be used to eject USB drives?
Is it possible to eject USB drives and external HDD's with the eject ...
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pmount is not mounting Virtual Hard Disk
well , I'm using pmount for mounting usb devices .
I had made virtual hard disk on my virtual servers to check backup operations on them .
here's the problem :
pmount is not accepting to mount ...
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Is there an equivalent to Windows ReadyBoost in Linux? [duplicate]
In Windows 7 a feature was introduced in which you could use a thumbdrive as "poor man's" RAM called ReadyBoost. Does Linux have any equivalent of this?
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USB key not responding when inserted
I just attempted to create a USB key for Chrome OS. I followed the instructions found here. This is what I did:
1- Downloaded a .zip version of the build.
2- Extracted the .zip file which gave me a ...
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1answer
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Ubuntu 11.04 and large external drives
I have a Hitachi USB external 3 terabyte drive attached to a Dell Precision T1500. When connected to the computer running Ubuntu 11.04 (2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 ...
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grub-install from the grub2 shell
I am trying to follow this answer but keep getting stuck with the following errors:
me@greenlane:~$ sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/boot /dev/sdc
/usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: File system ...
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1answer
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Installing from mounted iso located on USB-HDD
I formatted my ~200GB HDD with RMPrepUSB to FAT32 and with syslinux bootloader.
Used XBoot to "Create USB" with debian-6.0.6-amd64-netinst.iso inside.
In linux.cfg it shows up as:
### MENU START
...
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3answers
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How to salvage an unreadable usb flash drive
I have a 16GB USB flash drive that somehow got corrupted to the point in which even fdisk -l can't find it (I get a one-line error message saying: "Unable to open /dev/sdc")
However, it is being ...
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1answer
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USB3 Hard Drive Not Recognised by Linux
My external USB 3 hard drive is behaving very strangely:
If I plug it into a USB 2 port, it works fine
If I plug it into a USB 3 port, it doesn't work at all. It's not even mentioned in ...
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GET flash memory type: SLC or MLC
Just for my knowledge, I would like to know whether the type of flash memory used in my pendrive is SLC or MLC. Is there a way to find it out? I googled but found nothing.
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Permission rights on automatic directories inside /media
I got a permission denied when I am trying to cd inside a directory.
I could chown it for my user, however I'm wondering if the problem is elsewhere:
The directory in question is an automatic ...
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Directly convert Archbang live on a USB drive to one such with persistent file-system
I have installed Archbang 2012.12.03 from ISO image on my USB drive,
now I have a USB drive with a live Linux installed on it
but at end of every session and rebooting system I faced with
a fresh ...
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2answers
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Running Linux from pendrive on Windows natively
I am trying to find a program that allows me to run some linux distribution directly from pendrive, in windows, without the need to access the bios or to have administrator permissions.
I need ...
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2answers
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Install Chromium OS without USB Disk
You seem to need a 4GB USB disk or flash drive to install Chromium OS onto before you can install it to your hard drive. Is there a way to install Chromium OS onto your hard drive without a handy 4GB ...
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0answers
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How to bypass WD MyBook Essential external HDD hardware lock?
I have a Western Digital Mybook Essential external HDD 2TB which is password locked. Well with my old OS it showed me that is unlocked, but as I changed the OS it's showing that is locked, I've ...
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1answer
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Mounting USB drive that is not recognized
Using Arch Linux / XFCE, I frequently have problems with USB drives that are not properly mounted. Sometimes they automatically show up in Thunar and I can mount them with one click. However, at other ...
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0answers
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Problems copying large files to USB drive
I've got some issues when copying larger files to my USB drive. First of all, my system stopped recognizing my USB drives automatically. I now have to run modprobe usb-storage in order for my USB ...
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2answers
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How do I boot from a liveusb using qemu-kvm?
I am trying to get qemu-kvm to boot from my live usb stick. Is this possible?
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How to setup a conservative sync/journaling method for Flash/USB drives?
I regularly have the problem that my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) writes some files to an USB drive that are afterwards missing or broken in Windows. Windows often also tells me that it found problems with ...
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1answer
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How to fix hard-disk error connected by usb?
My system is Linux 64bit, my hard-disk is a 1TB WD HD, connected to my computer by USB3.0. I found some files cannot be copied, they are video files, and it seems I can play the video. I ran e2fsck ...
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After install Centos 6.3 from USB, it doesn't boot
I installed CentOS on my machine from my USB. I did a minimal CentOS USB drive with UNetbootin. After I install the CentOS, when i try to reboot, it does not starts. I have only the cursor blinking on ...
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Making USB drives readonly on an specific USB port or for an user account
I have a Multiseat machine and the second seat has USB access from a signle port by HUB (a Keyboard and a mouse are connected to it).
I need make all storages drives that is connected to to this HUB ...
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2answers
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USB external drive not working
I have an external usb drive that is not working properly:
Jun 13 10:36:38 sleipneir kernel: [ 1022.548241] usb 1-3.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 28
Jun 13 10:36:38 ...
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How to umount a USB drive?
I want to know how to umount my USB drive via command line. I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit.
