OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop
Hardware info:
- HP EliteDesk 800 G1
- 3 x 10 Port USB 2.0 Hub
- many USB External Hard Drives
How the issue occurred:
- Was moving a large file from external USB drive A to drive B, after some time Drive B showing
input/output error
and the move terminated - Drive B is auto-mounted at
/media/x/drive_B
- Click on mounted Drive B in Nautilus returns error, won't list any file in Drive B
- Thus I click on 'Eject' button in Nautilus, shows successfully ejected
- When trying to remount via terminal using
sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/x/drive_B
, it shows
Symptoms as of now:
- Drive B is completely/physically disconnected from the previously connected USB hub
- when run
lsblk
, Drive B shows in the list as/dev/sdX
- when run
df
, Drive B does not show in the list - when run
sudo fdisk -l
, Drive B does not show in the list - Drive B still shows in Disks GUI, only option that is not greyed out is "power off", it shows error
Error opening /dev/sdX for fsync: No such device or address (udisks-error-quark, 0)
when clicked - When reconnect Drive B into the same USB port, Nautilus won't prompt the mount option per normal, and the disk will not mount manually using
sudo mount
. Above error message prompts stays the same when running commands .
Steps that I have tried to solve this issue but didn't work:
partprobe /dev/sdX
showsError: Error opening /dev/sdX: No such device or address
eject /dev/sdX
showseject: unable to open '/dev/sdX'
- I highly suspect that a simple reboot can fix the issue, however I cannot access on-site at the moment to make sure everything is running normally after reboot, can't risk it
What I want to achieve:
- Remove this unfunctional pseudo disk from the system, allow it to be replugged in and remount per normal
Thanks all in advance.