Questions tagged [usb-drive]
Any storage device with a USB interface (USB stick, USB hard disk, …).
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How to disconnect and reconnect USB devices on the command line?
I want to find out what gnome-disk is doing, how to do the same on the command line and how to undo whatever gnome-disk does. (It can not undo all it does itself.)
I have already experimented a little ...
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USB HDD Constantly accessed every 0.25 seconds only when mounted
So I recently purchased a Seagate 16TB external USB hard drive (STKP16000400), it actually arrived earlier today.
The first thing I did was wipe the disk, create a new GPT partition table with a ...
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How can I make live boot pendrive with linux system
Could you please provide more specific information or context about the topic or question you'd like a paragraph on?
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SSD initially mounts correctly, but disappears from lsblk after a few days
I am a Linux beginner, and am having a problem with a drive which disappears from lsblk periodically, and am stuck with how to proceed. The drive is an 240GB external USB SSD.
Mounting the Drive Works
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fdisk -l on an usb drive gives a very weird response
Today I nuked an old usb3 flash 8GB drive on a linux machine with:
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb
then I put it into a windows pc, it asked me to format it, I did an extended format with default ...
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Remove encrypted partition from "Kingston Datatraveler Locker+ G3" and make it usable to Linux PC?
I have a "Kingston Datatraveler Locker+ G3" lying around. The manual on it explains steps for Windows XP and Windows 7 so it's from that time, I guess. I had some files on it, but couldn't ...
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How to modify/extend USB device access permissions in Debian?
I have a PC with Debian 10. I need the USB drives to have broader permissions than those given by default by the system.
I will give an example: with the user "john" being authenticated, ...
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Can Wine and/or Playonlinux be used to fix ntfs errors the way Windows does?
Very often, when a ntfs external drive cannot be mounted in Linux because of some more or less obscure motive, simply plugging it onto Windows fixes it, even without running the tool to scan and fix ...
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Softirq delayed because of the Heavy I/O Operation
I am trying to copy the contents of a 1 GB ISO file (stored in USB) to my internal storage. As part of a test when i am doing repetitive copy operation from USB to my hard drive continuously I observe ...
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how to clone UEFI bootable USB disk onto another disk (possibly of different size)
How can I clone my existing UEFI bootable disk, so that the copy is identical?
I have tried creating new bootable disk, using same procedure, same label name, and same UUID and PARTUUID labels for the ...
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How to check which "applications are keeping the volume busy" on Linux? [duplicate]
Sometimes after I read and write files in a USB connected to my linux desktop, then turn off all visible applications, wait for my USB to stop blinking, then attempt to eject the USB, I get a warning ...
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Scrub identifying data from USB stick
I am providing photos related to a legal matter to a lawyer and she is going to give them to law enforcement without giving them my name (under attorney client privilege).
I am not sure if she is tech ...
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my usb hard drive is only showing up in lsusb
I have a 500GB WD My Passport Hard Drive And it doesn't show up on my computer, Which is running arch linux. i've tried searching for solutions, however most of them are only if the drive dosen't show ...
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How can I auto run the USBs files when it's plugged into my Chromebook?
Auto running the file with a ".inf" is not working.
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Nixos install results in error during boot of "Timed out waiting for device /dev/dis/by-uuid/... to appear" with external NVME drive via USB
I have an issue when using an external NVME drive, grub successfully boots but once entering the entry default configuration (nixos generation) it gives me the below error:
"Timed out waiting ...
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smartctl; need help to recover usb disk
I have a 2TB usb disk. I can not see it anywhere, can not mount it anyway. Here is the smartctl output. I am using ubuntu-22.04. How I rescue/use my usb disk? Any help
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USB-Flash-drive no longer enumerated by system, how to repair
One of my memory sticks has stopped being usable. It's not that old, and has a fairly low R/W life used. But any attempt to format or write to it seems impossible now.
When inserted it creates a new ...
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"Read Capacity(10) failed" and "Sense Key : Illegal Request" with a SATA-to-USB adapter
What is the meaning of these error messages in the system log, when I plug in a 2.5" spinning-disk SATA drive that I know works, using a USB-to-SATA adapter?
Jun 25 16:08:07 hostname kernel: [...
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How to burn correctly the FreeBSD 7.2 ISO image in a USB stick
I've found that FreeBSD 7.2 should have kqemu,so I want to try how much good it was. I've written the iso image to my USB stick ( /dev/sdj ) with this command :
xzcat 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso | dd ...
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USB disk partitions disappeared, cannot mount
The USB partitions were deleted, only sdb remained. sdb1 does not exist. How do I partition the USB again? Now it shows up in the lsblk output, but I can't mount it.
[xx@x ~]$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM ...
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Linux removable drive stuck problem when reading large number of files
I have several USB removable drives that I have connected to my single-board computer to use as a NAS. The operating system I am using is Armbian, which is a Debian-like system.
Ok, this is the ...
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cant run linux mint on usb stick (no access to hard drive currently) kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill init exitcode=0x00000009
I have swapped out the cpu for another one though, it’s a sony vaio vpcf11s1e with gt 330m, i3 350qm and 8 gbs of ddr3 ram.
I had to swap out the i7 720qm for an i3 350m what was laying around i7 was ...
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Ubuntu and other software completely unable to detect a usb drive
I was attempting to flash a USB drive so that I could install Windows on a different HDD, but in the process, it became completely unreadable.
So now whenever I try using it it does not appear in any ...
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Installation speed using USB thumb drives
On the command line, I cp'd the debian 11.7 install image, which is a large 3.7GB isohybrid file, from my desktop SSD, to each of two different ~8 year old 8GB thumb drives (memory sticks), neither of ...
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display usb device type (usb 2.0 usb 3.0)
How to display usb device generation number?
I need to confirm usb storage device is usb 3.0. Is it possible to confirm on command line USB device generation? Not the port, port already confirmed as ...
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FSTRIM for USB-SSD boot drive
I would put my Ubuntu 22.04 NVME disk into this USB 3.2 20Gbps M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure and boot it from a USB 3.2x2 port.
I know that a SSD needs to be trimmed by FSTRIM, but I also read that ...
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OpenBSD USB install; how to mount usb and find file sets:
During an OpenBSD install from USB, if one has reached the Pathname to the sets? prompt and the USB stick is not mounted, how does one find the usb device name, mount the usb drive and direct the ...
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The usb drive with Debian with UEFI can't be powered on on another old PC with UEFI on
I installed the Debian system on a usb drive with UEFI and I can boot it in two computers by inserting it. However, in my old PC (Aspire E 15 E5-571G-57D9), the usb drive can't be boot with UEFI ...
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Can I recover data created on a CAINE linux live usb
Long story short I had to do a mock static exam for my college digital forensics class. I went through and screenshotted stuff and then copied it to a usb export drive that i mounted. All is well and ...
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How can I add more storage to a persistent usb with Linux mint on it?
I have created a persistent usb with Linux Mint on a 128 Gb thumb drive. When I first created it I guess I only allocated 80 Gb for persistence. Now that I have been using it for a couple months the ...
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how to troubleshoot slow usb drive?
TLDR: How do I troubleshoot a slow usb 3.1 device plugged into a laptop.
ISSUE: When I copy (tried GUI and terminal) the first few .iso files copy almost instantly 300mb/s+, but then the 3rd/4th start ...
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New USB stick freezes processes that come in contact with it (dd, fdisk, gparted, etc)
I bought a new USB stick to upgrade my os (debian) on my laptop. I used gnome-multi-writer to write the .iso file into the device. The writing process never showed a message of success or error so I ...
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Booting encrypted root with encrypted USB key
Running Debian 11 with grub, full disk encryption (no LVM) on /dev/sdb2, unencrypted /boot/efi on /dev/sdb1.
At boot, I want two options:
typing password
plugging an encrypted USB key (which stores a ...
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How to automatically mount ZFS external USB flash drive when I insert it
In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). I then changed its mount point to /media/user/mypool (...
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How to allow non-root user to write to ZFS external USB flash drive
In Ubuntu 20.04, I installed the zfsutils-linux package and formatted an external USB thumbdrive to use ZFS (sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb). However, the mounted pool at /mypool is only writable ...
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Unable to format my USB Flash Drive after installing a Distro to the drive itself
This may sound stupid, and it is, I installed a distro directly into my flash drive, after checking everything worked I loaded kali liveUSB to try and format it back to it's original size, however ...
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USB drive 'NTFS' works on some Windows platforms but not others, very annoying
I have two USB-sticks, a newer 'blue' 3.0 one and older 2.0 one which are now and then used for different purposes, sometimes I may turn one into a Linux live USB to test some distro, other times I ...
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USB stick: device not accepting address, error -71
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Recently, my USB stick been unrecognized by the OS.
Therefore I would like to copy it entirely on my hard disk drive asap.
However, neither on windows nor linux, the USB stick appears.
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How to unplug/unmount USB Flash card, which was automounted?
I have configured my flash card to automount with the following lines inf fstab:
UUID=6364-3963 /mnt/Flash03 auto noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.device-timeout=2
UUID=3537-3561 /mnt/...
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(udisks-error-quark, 0) error while trying to open my USB flash memory
I had an Ubuntu 22.04 running wth no problems but decided to change my SSD card and install the exact same Ubuntu on a new SSD. So I copied some important files into a USB flash memory and after it ...
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How to reset zpool after accidentally disconnecting a drive?
I am using OpenZFS on macOS (openzfsonosx.org), on a USB drive. It turns out that if I accidentally disconnect the drive from the computer, then zpool gives errors. However, if I reboot and reconnect, ...
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I accidentally remove the usb when live
Can someone show me how to fix this please ?
Here some more information about kernel version and ram
Linux kali 6.0.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.0.7-1kali1 (2022-11-07) x86_64 GNU/...
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Automount USB flash drive on CLI (no fstab solutions please!)
I have been looking for how to automount a USB flash/thumb drive on a Linux machine which does not have a GUI. So, it must be CLI-only solution. The most common answer I found was based on editing ...
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mounting lvm file system on sandisk fails: can't read superblock
my situation is this: I have added a sandisk to extend my laptop's memory capacity.
On the sandisk, in /media/sd, I have made a volume group, vg2, with two lvm logical volumes: bu and vbox.
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Former Bootable Thumb drive preventing Raspberry Pi from booting up
I have a problem with a 64 GB USB Thumb Drive. I used it for a CentOS bootable drive. I've tried the following things, but the drive stops my Raspberry 4 (Raspian Lite) from booting up. When I take ...
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Can you use one Bootable USB Drive on two different OS devices?
When you install a distro on a usb can you run it on two different OS's like Mac and Windows without any issues on any device.
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How to copy casper-rw persistent USB install to a new HDD?
I'm somewhat of a beginner with Linux, sorry for the dumb question.
I installed a persistent Linux Mint install to a USB drive. It has been working well, but now I want to install it directly to a new ...
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Linux mint not installing from USB
I created a Linux Mint Drive on a USB and have successfully installed it on one of my laptops (using this guide). When I try to install it on another laptop, the installation proceeds as normal (no ...
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"reset SuperSpeed USB device number 1 using xhci_hcd" kernel log message
When steadily reading data off a connected via USB3 HDD drive (cat /dev/sdx > /dev/null) in a VirtualBox VM (Host: Fedora 37, guest: doesn't matter) I see a constant stream of kernel messages ...
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Unable to access or safely remove encrypted device
Details: I have a bootable encrypted HDD (running Linux mint). I have cryptsetup (2:2.4.3-1ubuntu1.1) installed on my main machine.
I can access the unencrypted partition of the 1TB HDD. The system ...
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