Questions tagged [removable-storage]
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Permission denied using pv for copying image to USB drive
I am attempting to copy an Arch Linux ISO image directly to a USB drive. Previously, I have simply used either cp or dd to do this, such as:
sudo cp image.iso /dev/sdb
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Removable media mounting strategies
I'm working my way through understanding more about unix/linux and how the various tools/packages/options interact with one another (for example, the role of systemd, or how fstab works). I'm also ...
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What happens if a root partition, mounted over USB, disconnects?
I have a laptop without an internal hard drive. To get some use out of it, I'm considering putting the root partition on external media, over USB. I can't see any reason this wouldn't work, but I ...
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mdadm raid 10 added to fstab shows as removable drive in dolphin. How to fix?
I'm still relatively inexperienced in Linux and this is my first post here. I configured mdadm raid 10 far acording to archlinux RAID wiki page but with custom chunk size 64K. It contains 2 older ...
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Debian Bookworm - How to prevent block device seeking and probing when connected?
I have a small bootable system which requires access to storage devices, but not at the data level (i.e. just firmware commands), with the exception of a USB floppy drive whose data is accessed raw (...
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Is ext4 and xfs only for usage with internal file systems?
I am attempting to store some large files and I thought an encrypted ext4 partition would be excellent. However the GNOME Disk Utility appears to state ext4 as for internal disks and xfs only for ...
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Solving the USB drive/mass storage stall issue
Sadly the issue reported and described here: Pernicious USB-stick stall problem. Reverting workaround fix? and Is "writeback throttling" a solution to the "USB-stick stall problem"?...
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Mount drive not as removable drive
I've added the following line to my /etc/fstab to mount a ramdisk.
none /media/ramdisk tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,size=2048M 0 0
It shows up in my desktop as a removable drive, and it is ...
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Hide entries in grub menu when device is unavailable?
I have several menuentries in my grub2 menu, some of which point to removable devices (Ventoy, Windows, etc). Is there any way to configure grub to automatically and temporarily hide (or grey out, or ...
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USB not detected and can't perform actions on it
While installing ChromeOS Flex into a machine, the installation process froze and we had to stop the installation. Now, the USB is not recognized in any machine, no matter if Windows or Linux.
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How can I determine the rainbow book color of a CD on Linux?
I have put a CD into my drive. How can I find the rainbow book color on Linux (Red book/Yellow book/Blue book/...)?
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GRUB2 - Windows 10 installer error, multiboot USB
I am trying to install a USB memory stick as a (grub2) multiboot and am having trouble booting the Windows installer. Arch Linux doesn't work either, only with KDE neon everything works.
I would ...
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Corrupt sd card is seen by gnome-disks, but can't format
Somehow I can see the sd-card in gnome-disks as /dev/sda, but it won't show up in gparted. In gnome-disks it shows as a mass storage device with no media, or size, and it won't allow me to edit ...
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Grub has assumed control of my multi-boot, what do I need to learn to take it back?
Even after many years, I'm still an 'arms-length' user of linux. I switched to Mint when XP stopped, use the default configuration, and have not had to interact with Grub before. I use it to get the ...
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USB memory stick unmounts and vanishes
I bought this device a few days ago, and checked it with utility f3. It is ostensibly a Philips 256 memory stick, internally seen as an
Bus 002 Device 034: ID 090c:2000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (...
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