Questions tagged [usb-drive]
Any storage device with a USB interface (USB stick, USB hard disk, …).
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How can I get the _real_ progress of dd, ignoring fast/staging buffers? [duplicate]
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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Slowness/Transfer rate going up and down on external 5TB Seagate hard drive via Samba?
My setup is the following:
I have an old laptop with 4GB RAM connected to LAN
The laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04 Server and functions as my home/media server
The laptop has a 5TB Seagate Expansion drive ...
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Writing to an External USB Flash Drive When Power Could Be Lost
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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Hardware Theory: Read only Scrub of HDD/SSD drive using dd
Claim
If drives are capable of hardware controller correction of data upon read, then it is possible to routinely catch and repair silent data corruption by simply reading it.
Premises
Normally, when ...
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boot usb iso-image from grub2
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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How long should installing Linux (Ubuntu server or Fedora server) from a USB stick onto a Dell PE R730 server take?
I have flashed an OS image onto a USB stick and put it in the internal USB port of my Dell PowerEdge rack server. The boot manager can see the drive and I can select it for a one-shot boot but when I ...
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USB SATA dock failing on one computer but not on another
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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How to change default automount USB path to /mnt/sdXX?
Default mount path with udisks2, udiskie is /media/XXXXX
On some distributions /media/user/XXXXXX
How to change automount path for USB drives to a shorter /mnt/sdb1 /mnt/sdc2 etc.
With udisks2, ...
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usb won't boot automatically
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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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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Copying files from Linux to external USB hard drive - Speed reduces to almost zero
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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Copy from HDD to USB 3.0 is really slow with Thunar, cp, and rsync
I was trying to copy files with rsync from my laptop to a USB 3.0 external hard drive, but it was going really slow. Just for reference, this is the command I was using:
rsync -a src/ dest/ --info=...
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How do I install Linux when I cannot disable Secure Boot?
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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Poor performance on Linux compared to Windows when reading from certain USB 3 flash drives
The issue to which I refer has been talked about a bit elsewhere on the internet:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/sbpt23/usb_flash_drive_read_speed_much_slower_in_linux/
https://...
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How to autorun a script in usb flash drive on Ubuntu without root authentication
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 ...
