Questions tagged [usb-drive]
Any storage device with a USB interface (USB stick, USB hard disk, …).
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My USB external disk always turns off after a few hours, breaking ZFS
I run a server with an 8TB Lacie D2 Pro USB drive. The issue is that after a few hours, the disk will always temporarily disconnect, and then ZFS can't recover from this (and I'm flooded with errors + ...
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Linux fixing slow usb transfer speed without rebooting
I have a usb 3.0 apricorn usb disk, 1tb size I think, for which this has been done to it under RHEL-8.10 and is only used on servers running RHEL-8.10 : parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt mkpart primary 0% ...
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True USB Thumb Drive Write Progress (Beyond Cache Lies) for Immediate Safe Ejection After Completion
In Debian 12, is there a method to see true progress indication when writing large files (e.g., ISOs >4GB) to a slow ventoy USB thumb drive, instead of a lying progress bar (rsync --progress/Nemo) ...
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A way to disable udisks "housekeeping" short of disabling udisks?
I have a USB hard drive connected to Raspberry Pi OS that seemingly never spins down. It turns out that udisks2.service is performing regular "housekeeping" and failing: Sep 05 02:32:13 rpi ...
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USB Drive Read/Write Errors, Rasbperry Pi 3A+, Reproducable Error
Use Case I am using a SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 Drive (128GB Capacity) with a Raspberry Pi 3A+ The drive is mounted using /etc/fstab: UUID=c85... /home/user/Videos/YouTube ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail 0 2 ...
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Provide fake/virtual USB drive via USB port for camera video storage
I have a Blink camera sync module, it is a proprietary device which downloads video clips from various Blink cameras in my home and stores them into a vfat-formatted USB-A drive attached to the module....
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No media found on a USB flash drive - chances of reviving?
Context I was in class at my university, and there I needed to fetch some files from my 64GB USB drive to a local computer. When I plugged USB in... nothing happened, the computer did not recognize ...
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Why is password requested repetitively to mount encrypted USB drive?
I have a USB drive, encrypted with LUKS cryptsetup, that I use for regular backups. When I plug in the drive, I am prompted for a password, just as expected. But then the drive gets mounted, an icon ...
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Some USB drives are not recognized in U-Boot, while others are
I'm using U-Boot 2020.10. In U-Boot, out of two USB drives, one is recognized and the other is not. Once Debian 12 is running, I have my two USB drives that are recognized and use the same driver xhci-...
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How to write a folder on usb drive after I put .iso image on it?
I want to create a bootable USB and to put drivers folder beside my .iso image. Firstly, I wrote zeroes on my USB drive using this command: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4096 conv=fsync oflag=...
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Persistent USB Issues on Pop!_OS 22.04 with Acer Aspire 3 - Logs Included
_OS community, I’m experiencing persistent USB issues on my Acer Aspire 3 running Pop!_OS 22.04, and I’d appreciate some guidance. The problem involves frequent USB controller failures and device ...
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Why did my dd command change disk from ExFAT to UDF (Universal Disk Format)
I have a usb disk and I have format it to ExFAT on Mac. Then I run the command to create a bootable windows on Mac: sudo dd if=Win11_24H2_EnglishInternational_x64.iso of=/dev/disk4 bs=8m status=...
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External USB drive with zfs pool won't go to sleep (most of the time)
I have an external hard disk with a ZFS pool on it. The data is accessed very infrequently so I would like to drive to go to sleep after some inactivity, which I set to 10min: hdparm -S 120 /dev/disk/...
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Unmounted USB drive, plugged in but I need access remotely
I unmounted my 2TB Samsung SSD, before I went on holiday (meaning to bring it with me but I forgot). I have remote SSH access but I can't find a way that will work for an up-to-date kernel (OpenSuse ...
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Is the Axagon EE35-GTR Ribbed HDD enclosure compatible with Linux?
The Axagon EE35-GTR USB-C 5Gbps RIBBED box HDD enclosure claims to be compatible with Linux and any capacity. I need to use it with a 20TB Seagate HDD on a desktop PC with AMD A88X chipset, running ...
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