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No partitions visible on external hard drive
I'm trying to rescue data from Linux installation on old laptop. It was dual-booted with windows. I know there is at least 1 ntfs partition and 1 ext4. I can boot Windows on the old laptop, but linux ...
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resetting usb bus to allow device mount after usbguard service stop
in RHEL 8.9, there is a holdover problem with usbguard. For example:
usbguard active with rules.conf having just allow with-interface one-of { 03:*:* 09:*:* } to allow human interface devices (kybds/...
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Mounting a USB drive on a synology system: "operation permitted for root only" although sudo was used
I want to mount a USB drive on my NAS synology
Following those tutorials:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/37767/how-to-access-a-usb-flash-drive-from-the-terminal
https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-...
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new USB stick: backup GPT table corrupt, primary appears OK
Kubuntu - I can't mount/partition a new USB-stick
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The
sudo fdisk -l
output is:
The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.
Disk /dev/sdb: 61 TiB, ...
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Is my brand new USB SSD defective?
I've had a few times this problem in the past few days (but not in the previous weeks and I haven't changed anything besiders package updates) in a Debian 12 system (kernel 6.1 - haven't tried 6.6) ...
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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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USB Mass Storage device detected but no /dev/sdX?
I have a HDD that want to mount using a USB+power cable. When connecting, I see the message:
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1f75, idProduct=0621, bcdDevice= 0.36
usb 1-2: New USB device ...
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Can't mount USB drive On Fedora 37
I was working on creating Linux From Scratch and suddenly I can no longer mount my USB drive. When I sudo mount /dev/sdf2 /mnt I get an error kernel: JBD2: Invalid checksum recovering data. Here's ...
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How can I make a /media mounted USB Dongle a /mnt mounted USB Dongle?
I am trying to make /dev/sda a /dev/mmcblk device and the only way, I have found, is to make a /media/ mounted USB dongle installed indefinitely by making it mounted at /mnt/ instead.
But...how should ...
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Give executable permissions to binary files on a USB
I have a desktop application that provides the user with a tarball (.tar.gz) that they can unpack to find the binary that can be run with executable permissions which starts the overall program. This ...
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How To MOUNT A LUKS Encrypted Linux Filesystem Unlocked Partition VIA USB on another LINUX OS to retrieve files
Ive been at this all day. I've scoured the web and this board and have tried many solutions to this issue but nothing has seemed to work. Someone on here asked a similar question and the solution did ...
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USB flash drives automatically mounted (headless computer)
For the project SamplerBox, up to now I was using /dev/sda1 /media auto nofail 0 0 to have USB flash drives automatically mounted when inserted on the headless computer, see also Auto-mount and auto-...
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.img file mounted, want to see file updates without having to remount
I have a raspberry pi that is emulating a mass storage device, while having the backing .img file mounted. Once the pi is powered up and the .img is mounted, I turn on the mass storage emulation. I'm ...
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Can't mount USB during OpenBSD installation
I'm trying to install OpenBSD and I need to mount USB with wifi firmware, but can't find it inside /dev. sysctl shows that it is inserted and no errors in dmesg about it.
$ sysctl hw.disknames
sd0:...
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Disable specific USB ports on RHEL 6
I need to disable only 4 of 8 USB ports on my workstation. Unfortunately BIOS doesn't allow me to disable single USB port so I need to do this in RHEL 6. Then, I need to configure which of the allowed ...
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External USB-drive keeps powering on during mount operations
I have an external hard drive connected to my machine running Fedora 33 (GNOME 3.38.5) over USB3.1. That drive usually goes to sleep after 5 minutes. Now each time I mount or umount another USB-drive, ...
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Where does Chrome OS, linux (beta) mount usb devices when forwarded
I am running chrome os Version 90.0.4411.0 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) I have gone into settings and enabled my usb device and when I go into the terminal and run lsusb this is what I get
Bus 002 ...
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How can I make file/directory/ramdisk be visible as USB-drive in Linux?
I have some common issue about mounting something not a USB-drive as USB-drive in Linux.
In that way I want ramdisk/directory/file to be seen as USB-drive in system so I could "insert" it in ...
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Cannot mount partition on a hard disk coming from a usb enclosure
I backupped a lot of data from a Linux Centos guest and a Windows guest running on ESXI 5 to a 1TB hard disk mounted inside a USB enclosure. The usb enclosure was connected directly to the guests thru ...
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How to Selectivly Passthrough USB devices to a chroot
I have a chrooted env. made with debootstrap and i would like to pass only Certain USB devices to it. (not all the devices mounted on the host system).
I know you could pass all USB devices by using
$ ...
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Root partition failing, usb, ext4, Archlinux
Problem:
Installed Archlinux on a USB pen-drive (ext4) about a month ago.
Everything was working fine up until recently. After a while I would not be able to execute commands (except bash built-ins).
$...
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Mount Hidden USB device [closed]
I am not able to see an usb devide with my Macbook. Not available on Disk utility.
But I can see it with ioreg -> see THISDEVICE
ioreg -p IOUSB
+-o Root <class IORegistryEntry,...
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Mount usb device, "name or service unknown"
I am running Debian and I am trying to run an App on my smartwatch through Eclipse. It is not running with no real log reported. My current thoughts are that it is related to not really having a ...
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Access USB device storage via terminal
For some reasons my Debian is broken and boots into a terminal based UI instead of the desktop.
Where can I find my USB device storage directory in this terminal?
Edit: It's not under /media.
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NTFS-3G cannot on macOS catalina: MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3)
I have upgraded my macOS from High Sierra to Catalina, which, I think, causes for me to have following error. Is there any way to fix this error?
$ mkdir /Volumes/FOLDER
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g ...
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Unable to mount a gpt partitioned external USB drive in Ubuntu 19.04
I'm trying to mount an external Toshiba USB drive in Ubuntu 19.04. No entry appears in the file manager gui when the drive is plugged in. fdisk shows...
ewan@tiny:~$ sudo fdisk -l
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Disk /dev/sdb: ...
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How to used losetup with two external hard disks
sorry for my English...
I rescue data(Films) from a external hard disks with ddrescue. The file name is rescue.img and it is stored on an external hard disk.
Now I will mount rescue.img as here to ...
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Mount USB Storage recognised by "usb-devices" but not by "lsblk"
I have Debian Wheezy based router, kernel version 3.10.107 After plugging in USB storage, it is not recognized by lsblk. However, it looks like it is detected by the OS since the command usb-devices ...
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Cannot mount hdd
So I have a HDD which I have connected with an adapter via usb to my Ubuntu laptop. On connection a sound is made, but the disk is not automatically mounted.
After executing fdisk -l I get these ...
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Why can't /dev/sd** be accessible without mounting?
I've been reading other questions and answers, but none have shown me exactly why mounting is absolutely necessary. They say the drive needs a mounted directory for association with the physical drive,...
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Duplicate mounting of USB drive on Linux Mint
I have a problem that I have never encountered before, so I have no idea where to begin TS.
One of my external USB drives, named Tolotupon, has always mounted properly. I had done nothing to the ...
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Fedora Command Line [closed]
A few questions about commands relating to a removable device.
What sort of command can locate the device file used by a USB? As in the directory it creates to open the actual USB.
How do I mount a ...
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Create folder in USB once mounted
I am trying to create a folder in USB once it's mounted. I am using below udev rule where I am sending **ID_FS_UUID_ENC** (64AC6F22AC6EEE4C) as a parameter and in the start.sh I am creating a ...
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How to mount an USB-stick on Xubuntu?
I would like to do a bootable USB stick on Xubuntu. I installed unetbootin, downloaded iso-image but as I tried to create usb-stick, it said
You must first mount the USB drive /dev/sdb3 to a ...
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Detect if USB disk is mounted in C application in Linux
I would like to check if USB disk is mounted in a C application. I know that in a script I can accomplish this via mount | grep /mnt (the mount point where udev mounts the USB drive) but I need to do ...
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How can I pin a mount folder to a specific serial number, so that the same disk gets mounted in the same place every-time?
I have many hard-disks that need to be mounted on restarts some have have NTFS file-systems other have EXT4, some are USB and some are SATA, some have the same label names, and they don't get mounted ...
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“cp: cannot create regular file” on a VFAT formatted external USB flash drive
I have an external USB drive which is formatted in FAT32. That's the output of the fdisk -l command:
/dev/sdb1 * 56 15728639 15728584 7.5G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
I have the following entry in ...
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How to organize mount points of connecting devices?
When I am connecting my external HDD to my Ubuntu box, it mounts several partitions under
/media/<username>/<uuid>
When I am connecting my mobile phone, it mounts under
/var/run/user/&...
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Is unmounted USB drive more durable than mounted one?
I'm thinking of running a file server on Raspberry Pi with two USB flash memories. Should I mount and umount every time I execute the backup? I mean, is the umounted USB more durable than mounted USB (...
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USB Device 'attached' several times
I got a problem when i am pluggin USB devices into my server. It looks like the USB devices repeatedly plugged in or re-assign the device letters sdb1: sdb1
The problem with that is that i execute a ...
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Mount Oculus Go's internal storage under Linux?
When connected to my Linux machine, dmesg shows the USB device without identifying or providing a device path in /dev.
What steps are necessary to mount Oculus Go's internal storage under Linux? ...
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USB sticks not detected in file system nor by GParted (Linux Mint)
I am trying to make an installable Windows USB stick in Linux Mint. It is not detecting the two drives I am attempting to format.
From my understanding, I need to format the drive with GParted ...
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Is it safe to mount one partition on many directories?
Example:
mount /dev/sdb1 dir1
mount /dev/sdb1 dir2
touch dir1/file1
touch dir2/file2
I'm worried about the collision of writing data, which may result in some corruption of the filesystem.
I read ...
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Debian 9: Which package is required to automount USB-drives?
I successfully installed Debian 9 (Stretch) together with desktop environment LXQt. To keep the system minimal and clean I disabled auto-installation of all recommended and suggested packages via
APT:...
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Does mounting a USB device automatically modify it?
Most popular desktop Linux distributions automatically mount USB storage devices when the devices are connected or at least provide an easy way to mount them from the GUI. Does mounting a USB storage ...
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Virtualbox VMDK to bootable usb stick not working
I used VirtualBox to set up a small Arch Linux 64 bit x86 machine. Everything is running fine installed on the 8GB big virutal hard disk in the VMDK format.
cfdisk shows that I created two partitions:...
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USB flash disk not mounting/showing and gparted and commands didn't output while connecting the USB drive - UBUNTU 16.04
I have a 8GB San Disk Cruzer Blade flash disk. When I connected it, it is not mounting. So I opened the Disks; it shows:
Then I tried opening Gparted; it never finishes loading. When I realised this ...
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How do I plug in a usb-drive?
Problem
After using the following command on my usb-drive (/dev/sdd):
# physically plugging usb-drive in at /dev/sdd
> umount /dev/sdd1
> eject /dev/sdd
I am unable to undo this last action. ...
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Usb storage doesn't mount
I'm connecting my LinkitOne to my arch linux pc, and it doesn't mount.
When I'm connecting same Linkit One to windows pc and another arch linux pc it works as it should.
Here is dmesg output on my pc ...
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Mount usb drive using a script if it's plugged in
So I want to mount a usb device using a script if it's plugged in at boot.
The usb device is not plugged in at every boot but others may be so I need to check if the label is correct and then mount it....
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