Questions tagged [usb-drive]
A USB drive (or USB flash drive, or thumb drive, or memory stick, or pendrive) is a portable device for storing data that includes a flash memory and has and integrated USB interface, thus can be connected to USB ports. Use this tag for questions regarding storage drives that connect using a USB port.
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USB stick not recognized by fdisk
My USB stick got corrupted. I am not even able to format it as it is not found properly by my OS (Ubuntu 16.04).
What I tried:
It is found by neither fdisk -l, lsblk nor gparted.
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Buffer I/O error on dev sdc, logical block 0, async page read
The first error appeared when i had installed the program on my usb flash on windows. During the installation from unknown reason, there was an error, something like "error, please format your drive" ...
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Is unmask-ing root ("-.mount") a unreasonable on Ubuntu 19.04
I have had this on problem on different machines using Ubuntu 19.04 after recent updates, and I became intensly curious after my DVD and USB drives started having trouble mounting.
During the apt ...
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Prevent Ubuntu from changing hardware clock
I always tell people that 'nothing can go wrong' and that 'their computer won't even remember' if I boot their systems from my Ubuntu-installed pendrive, but I recently found out that this is not true....
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Ubuntu 15.10 doesn't recognize my USB 3.0 flash drive
I have a 8 GB USB 3.0 Silicon Power flash memory. I'd been using it on my laptop,which only has three USB 2.0 ports, until it didn't anymore mount on Ubuntu after being plugged in. The problem is that ...
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How do I mount USB drives as given user automatically?
How do I get my USB drive to auto-mount as owned by 'me' rather than by whomever is logged in to the computer screen at the time? Often I SSH into my computer while someone else is using it, and so ...
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Back up any and all usb sticks with udev
I have home server that I use for back up, Iv recently started using multiple shared (as in new one every few days) usb flash drives for some important files. I want to run a script to copy files only ...
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Systemd execute a script everytime a USB-Stick is inserted
I want to launch a script everytime a USB stick is inserted. After experimenting with udev, I tried to accomplish my task with systemd (udev is supposed to run only short tasks).
Systemd works fine ...
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How to mount a USB drive
I'm a newbie to Ubuntu. I just plugged in a 30 GB USB mini hard drive, but it doesn't seem to be detected. Unfortunately the page in the manual seems to be missing. I'm sure this is easy, but ...
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How do I access files on an MTP device?
I can't play music or view photos from my phone on Ubuntu 14.04. I can browse the files with the Nautilus, but they won't open. Rhythmbox crashes when trying to play music and the photo viewer says "...
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How can I use a Verbatim Secure'n'Go USB key?
I have purchased a 4Gb USB key from Verbatim.
How can I use it under Ubuntu? I do not need the "secure data" feature, and have still not saved anything on it, so formatting at low level would be OK.
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USB stick shows up as two drives!
I was given a free 1GB USB at an event a few months ago - however, when I plug it in to my Ubuntu laptop, the USB shows up as two drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). I have checked it isn't just ...
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recovery of USB drive after accidental formats of its entire block
Yes, I was dumb enough to not check that I formatted the whole block as fat32, then NTFS and multiple attempts to rejuvenate it using dd-ing a blank disk image file.
On inspection of size using ...
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Chip Genius for Ubuntu
Do we have something like Chip Genius software to reset the USB drive? I have few USB sticks which are having some read only error. I tried fixing it with Gparted, Disks utility and a few other tools ...
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USB 3.0 hard drive not recognised
Drive not recognised, it seems, by either USB 3.0 port or USB 2.0 port.
Windows recognised it. I transferred files.
After connecting the drive to the USB 3.0 of a machine running Ubuntu 18.04, (and ...
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Can't see partitions of USB flash drive in Ubuntu 18.04
I was copying data to an NTFS partition on a Verbatim 16 GB flash drive in Ubuntu 18.04. The copy ends successfully and I remove the USB drive properly. When I put it back in, the flash didn't mount. ...
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I want to block all usb devices except usb keyboard and usb mouse using udev rules in ubuntu 16.04 & above.?
I want to block all usb devices except usb keyboard and usb mouse using udev rules? The purpose is to restrict users from attaching external storage devices (flash drives, phone internal storage and ...
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How does Launcher get to choose which icon to display for different storage devices?
I have different drives; SSD, HDD, USB, eBook readers, and phones, usually show up with particular icon identifying the type of device.
I would like to understand how does Launcher or Nautilus get to ...
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Unlocking LUKS partition with keyfile on USB does not work
I partially followed this
What is /lib/cryptsetup/scripts/passdev actually doing?
/etc/crypttab
2tb UUID=... /dev/disk/by-label/STICK:/logfile luks,nofail,keyscript=/lib/cryptsetup/scripts/passdev,...
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How can I safely remove an external disk using the launcher icon?
The following animation demonstrates how I tried to safely remove an external USB 2.0 hard disk. However, each time I click on safely remove, the disk is being mounted again.
Animation:
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How to know if a pendrive can be safety removed?
Imagine that you copy a large file to a pendrive, and then you press the USB release button in nautilus. A warning window appears telling not to release the USB because data is being written. This ...
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Fastest File System Type
We currently/still write to tape for off-site backups (avg size is 80 GB per day) and the robot is misbehaving as of late. I'm setting up an NFS share on Ubuntu Server 14 (16 when it releases) to ...
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How to change default automount options for USB devices to read-only?
I'm trying to change the default mount options for USB drives. I want them to mount as read only so no files can be extracted from the host computer.
Any ideas on how I can do this (using 15.10)?
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USB 3.0 works slow as USB 2.0 in Ubuntu
I bought a USB 3.0 PCIe card and an external 3TB Western Digital USB 3.0 HDD. One partition is NTFS, and another is EXT4, but this is in regards to transferring to the EXT4 partition.
Speeds run ...
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Something is using my external drive. How do I find out what?
Whenever I attach my external LUKS drive to my laptop, the drive head starts rattling like crazy, as if I am copying the entire thing. Every now and then it pauses.
I've seen some tools like iostat ...
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Transcent StoreJet auto backup
Is it possible to make Auto-backup button on my Transcend StoreJet 35T3 work? I need this option badly. As an external hard drive it works perfectly, but I cannot find any software to make the button ...
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USB 3.0/ UASP - how to find out that mass storage uses UASP?
My Question is how can I find out if a USB 3.0 connected mass storage device is using UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol)?
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Is my HDD broken?
I have an external USB HDD which I think is broken. When I plug it in nothing happens. Can we confirm that is broken? Here is dmesg output:
[ 7998.225453] usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 10
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Is it possible to create a virtual drive and share via USB?
My question is kind of hard to follow, but I'm asking if it's possible to make a virtual flash drive and sync it to another device with a USB to USB cable?
To make things more clear, think of a ...
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"Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdc1: Input/output error" while formatting my pendrive?
I have a Transcend 4 GB pen-drive. When I tried to format my pen-drive by right-clicking and selecting format, it showed:
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling ...
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"Device x was not an MTP device" when using usbmount
I am trying to setup a raspberry pi to automatically copy SD card contents when it's inserted. I have managed to manually mount the cards fine using the mount command but usbmount has so far not ...
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Raspberry Pi 4 slow USB write speed
I have a Pi 4 running Ubuntu 20.04 64 bit
Have a USB 3.0 external HDD through a powered USB hub that gets 250MB/s write speed on my MacBook
On the Pi if I try to transfer one file it transfer at 50MB/...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS, Cannot use UAS on external USB-3 connected disk array
I recently purchased a 5-bay Orico disk Unit that I connected to my Ubuntu Server via Usb-3.
UAS was activated by default but caused a series a problems when doing Io intensive activities on any of ...
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Prevent user from mounting USB Key
How to prevent users from mounting a USB Key which is mounted automatically on boot with with line on /etc/fstab:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/64A5-F009 /media/usb-Samsung auto uid=1000,nodev,umask=000,nofail 0 ...
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Can not write to usb stick after formatting
I tried with Disks, and GParted with no luck.
Formatted to fat32, the owner is root, and the permissions are none for group root.
it was formated for xubuntu startup disk before.
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Can't find back the procedure to make a bootable key (suggested at first use of the computer)
I'm new to Ubuntu. I ordered a dell machine with Ubuntu 18.04 pre-installed. When I turned the machine on for the first time, I had all these first time settings to do and it suggested I create a ...
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Flash Drive does not show up
I'm not experienced with programming. I have been using Ubuntu Budgie for a few months. I used to be able to see a flash drive in my file manager, but after a recent update, it no longer appears. I ...
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USB 3.0 flash drive not being detected
I've looked around at numerous other questions about this topic, but none of them seems to help for me.
I have just bought a new 64Gb SanDisk USB 3.0 flash drive. The device works perfectly on ...
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lsusb not showing flash drive
I have a USB flash drive that previously worked with my main PC running Ubuntu 18.04. A couple of days ago the flash drive is no longer visible in the Ubuntu OS. However, the flash drive still works ...
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External Storage not showing on Nautilus
I am having issues with flash drives, external disk drives and Android phone storage.
I have a laptop and desktop both running Ubuntu 18.04 and mounting either of them seems to be a hit and miss ...
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Every external device becomes read only after minutes
I have been facing this problem from last week. Cannot paste into or delete files in any usb I plug in after 1 minute or 2. for the first two minutes i am able to paste files into the usb. Cannot ...
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apt-mirror: can't create /media/usb/apt-mirror/mirror directory at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 342 - onto USB drive
This question is related to this:
apt-mirror: can't create /dir:/mirror directory at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 342 But the answer there did not help, because the setup is a bit different.
I need ...
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Files and folders are partially not displayed in Nautilus
I am facing a problem and I couldn't find any related post for that. I am regularly using an USB flash drive to move files from a Windows computer to my laptop which runs Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
The ...
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ubuntu 17.04 freezes after safe removing usb flash or hdd
My laptop (dell studio xps 1640) is running a kubuntu 17.04 with kernel 4.10.0-42-generic. Most of the times when i connect a USB or HDD device, after safe removing the device when i physically remove ...
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How to get past "CD-ROM couldn't be mounted" when installing Ubuntu Server 16.04.3
I have been trying to install Ubuntu Server version 16.04.3 onto my PC through a USB drive and have been getting the same message after I select the keyboard layout.
[!!] Detect and mount CD-ROM
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Extremely Slow File Copy/Transfer Speed
I am on Ubuntu with KDE Plasma 5 and I am having a serious issue in which when I am copying files to a flash drive or memory card, copy speeds are extremely slow like around 2MB/s to 3MB/s which does ...
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How do i use r-linux interface to recover files to USB drive?
I, very stupidly, did a shift-delete on some very important files on my /home partition and now I am trying to recover them.
I have been able to find them using r-linux, and it seems like they are ...
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USB 3 drive not detected on USB 3 port
Usb3 drives (external hard disk or flashdrive) are not not seen on usb3 ports.
They work perfectly on USB2 ports. A USB2 flashdrive works perfectly on uSB2 or USB3 port.
The light on the USB3 disk ...
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USB Drive cannot be read in Xubuntu 14.04
I have a 64 GB 3.0 ADATA USB Flash Drive. Everything was fine until few days ago I had problems writing and reading files from it, it was extremely slow or refused to write files on it... so I decided ...
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How do I mount an external USB CD Drive in Ubuntu 16.04?
I am about to get Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a netbook running windows 7 starter. It does not have a built-in CD-ROM, so I have an external Samsung CD-ROM. I am afraid it will not work with Ubuntu, unless I ...
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