mkusb unsets the 'removable' flag from usb device
Bug #1918995 reported by
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| mkusb |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
After creating a persistent live system on a removable drive my system reports the drive is not removable.
I then tried to restore the drive to standard with Kparted, then tried again through mkusb.
Probably it pays to read all the options first.
It also appears that in the whole of linuxLand there is no way to reset that flag. Maybe you could fix that too.
System:
Kubuntu 18, Kernel 4.15.0-136-generic, Hardware Intel Core i7-2670QM
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| sudodus (nio-wiklund) wrote | #1 |
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I use lsblk to check if a drive is removable, for example
lsblk -o name,hotplug,
where lsblk -h tells us that
RM removable device
HOTPLUG removable or hotplug device (usb, pcmcia, ...)
When I check like this,
- a USB pendrive is 'hotplugable' and 'removable'
- a SATA SSD connected via a USB3 to SATA adapter is 'hotplugable' but not 'removable'
I don't think mkusb can do anything to change that, it is set by hardware.