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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Both systems are Arch Linux with the latest rsync. Connected via 1Gbit/s ethernet. Still rsyncing to a USB drive is slow, it's just 1-2MB/s rsync -Pavh --stats --rsh="ssh -T -c aes128-gcm@openssh....
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My neighbor was trying to use his WD drive and it failed to mount to D:\ I connected to my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop: lsblk -o model,name,fstype,size,label,mountpoint1 failed to return any partitions for ...
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I have this file on disk: $ ls -lh /path/to/some.mkv -rwxr-xr-x 1 enrico enrico 7.4G Dec 17 18:54 /path/to/some.mkv so it's less than 8 gigabytes, but when I try to copy it on a 30GiB flash drive, I ...
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I have a Mac (BSD UNIX: I believe that USB devices are mounted at /Volumes. Is there a clever method to ensure that all USB memory devices are shared at a consistent location on the network ...
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I want to make an automatic backup to a flash drive after auto-mounting it. To do this, I wrote in /etc/fstab... UUID=0698-A3CF /flash vfat noauto,nofail,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.idle-timeout=...
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Looking for WRITTABLE resque/recovery type LINUX distro for USB flash drive under 8GB installed. Current primary usage scenario: write and troubleshoot initramfs script for non-standard boot process (...
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I want to install Debian in dual boot with Windows, for this I created a bootable USB key under Linux Lite (Ubuntu based distro), with the #dd command. The command I used is: dd if=image.iso of=/dev/...
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udisks exists for regular users, root must (and is) able to live without it, I need help figuring out how. The goal is to do exactly what udisks power-off /dev/sdX does without udisks. hdparm is out ...
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I use Arch Linux and I find that if I plug a USB drive into my computer then it does not show up in /run/media/user-name. However, if I use caja I can see the drive and view its contents. Then if I go ...
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I'm using the dd command to write to a USB stick. My command is pretty straightforward: dd if=myimage.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M status=progress and indeed, I seem to be getting the progress reported: ...
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I'm looking into building a small embedded device, probably using a Banana Pi M2 Zero. In any case, the device will not have a graceful "turnoff" - it will simply lose power. However, I'm ...
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My laptop refuses to boot from a "live" usb stick, but I have grub2 on my HD, so I thought I'd boot the stick from there. In the grub2 console I tried: set root=(hd0,msdos2) chainloader /efi/...
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I've got one 20TB and one 6TB HDDs into an ORICO 6629us3-c USB3->SATA dock. For some testing purposes I have split the 20TB disk into 18 partitions and the 6TB inton 6 partitions. I could run ...
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So, I haven't used a USB stick for quite a while, but as I recall, it was easy to get them to boot automatically by moving them to first priority in BIOS setup. That's not working now. I have a USB ...
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I am a user of Ubuntu, Kali and lately Parrot for approximately the past 10-15 years (notebook, private use). Every now and then there are small problems to solve, but in general, everything works as ...
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I tried install Linux Mint with usb stick done by Ventoy and by (KDE) ISO Image Writer on Fedora. Mint latest version 21.3.Both times I get "Secure Boot Violation. Invalid signature detected. ...
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This year I started a cybersecurity course and the teacher (who has Ubuntu) challenged us students to steal his data with a USB flash drive. He didn't specify what type of data, so I chose to use this ...
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I have an embedded system development setup which is supposed to restrict users from accessing any system folders. On a USB stick I created a symlink to "/" (root folder) and when I click on ...
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