Ghost Drive [SOLVED]

[Amii_Leigh]

Since I've gotten rid of my very old 110 gig hard drive, I'm left with it's ghost on my Devices chain:
http://imgur.com/kZRqx1a
http://imgur.com/msYpuqd
http://imgur.com/fDkdwno

So I'm asking at this point, should I just leave this alone? Or is there an 'easy' fix for this?

[Amii_Leigh]

I really can't believe that I stumped everyone over this issue. Unless there's someone that has a better suggestion, I'm going to format one 320 gig hard drive and then move all the stuff from the suspect 320 gigabyte USB drive, then format that, and hopefully that will take care of this issue.

[WharfRat]

What does inxi -Dopxx show

And just for the heck of it grep -v ^# /etc/fstab

[Amii_Leigh]

Here's the results:

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amii@Basically ~ $ inxi -Dopxx
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1050.2GB (30.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500JB size: 250.1GB serial: WD-WCANKD182135
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD3200AVVS size: 320.1GB serial: WD-WCAV15542171
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD1600JS size: 160.0GB serial: WD-WCAP01010705
           ID-4: USB /dev/sdd model: 00BEKT size: 320.1GB serial: WD-WXE908A24121
Partition: ID-1: / size: 226G used: 66G (31%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /media/amii/Secondary size: 193G used: 162G (84%) fs: fuseblk dev: /dev/sdd1
           ID-3: /media/amii/5a190493-f6a9-4a10-a2ab-167e769cf4eb size: 290G used: 65G (24%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
           ID-4: /media/amii/c980694e-e0a4-43e1-854a-395da4d873a5 size: 143G used: 60M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
           ID-5: /media/amii/7bbd9978-91f4-4981-a7b1-f93bbf7574e9 size: 101G used: 4.2G (5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdd6
           ID-6: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.04GB (1%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
Unmounted: ID-1: /dev/ram0 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-2: /dev/ram1 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-3: /dev/ram2 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-4: /dev/ram3 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-5: /dev/ram4 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-6: /dev/ram5 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-7: /dev/ram6 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-8: /dev/ram7 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-9: /dev/ram8 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-10: /dev/ram9 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-11: /dev/ram10 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-12: /dev/ram11 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-13: /dev/ram12 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-14: /dev/ram13 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-15: /dev/ram14 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-16: /dev/ram15 size: 0.07G label: N/A uuid: N/A
           ID-17: /dev/sdb5 size: 4.29G
           label: N/A uuid: 3e082908-c123-4204-9105-55044221f06f
           ID-18: /dev/sdc5 size: 4.29G
           label: N/A uuid: 5d91c77f-a793-42ed-9c17-4d13b3c18350
           ID-19: /dev/sdd5 size: 4.29G
           label: N/A uuid: 6a64ed10-2e8f-452c-a34e-1a2f51ffa7d1
amii@Basically ~ $ 

Results of the second command:

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amii@Basically ~ $ grep -v ^# /etc/fstab
UUID=7fa1ddd9-4c1b-49a1-b93a-170b177bf09b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=4948c91a-f6dd-44f6-833c-3d663b90fa44 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
amii@Basically ~ $ 

I have no idea what any of this means...

Thanks for weighing in anyway. It's appreciated.

[WharfRat]

I can't reconcile the file manager's results with that of inxi

What's the results inxi -Sxx

[Amii_Leigh]

Here you go. I think I'll run that last bit again. It's more confusing when everything runs together in the small box.
But for now, this is what you asked for:

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amii@Basically ~ $ inxi -Sxx
System:    Host: Basically Kernel: 4.4.0-45-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.8.4)
           Desktop: Cinnamon 2.8.8 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana) dm: mdm
           Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
amii@Basically ~ $ 

[MintBean]

What you're seeing is not a 'ghost' of 110GB hard drive, but a 110GB partition on the 320GB disc you have connected by USB. The thing that IS an oddity, to me at least, is why that 320GB drive (/dev/sdd model: 00BEKT size: 320.1GB serial: WD-WXE908A24121) appears twice in the 'disks' utility- but I'm just going to put that down to an oddity of that piece of software. It is not shown twice via inxi command.

In short- if you don't want '110GB volume' appearing, either disconnect the USB drive, or delete that partition from the drive.

[WharfRat]

I hope MintBean's answer nails it because I'm perplexed here - not just with the 110 GB ghost but also with your disks in general.

I have two WD disks installed here and if I google WD6001FZWX I get 65,200 results

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[bill@XPS] ~ $ inxi -Dopxx|grep WD6001FZWX
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD6001FZWX size: 6001.2GB serial: -> temp: 46C
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD6001FZWX size: 6001.2GB serial: -> temp: 46C
[bill@XPS] ~ $ 

However when I google any of yours e.g., WXE908A24121 the only result I get is your forum post

It seems like your computer is a "ghost".

[Amii_Leigh]

Thank you for confirming what I need to do.

What is the 'best' file format to format a hard drive to, for best file preservation? (ext 3,4?)

I'm going to format the 320 gigabyte USB drive just as soon as I get the other two drives formatted and the data moved onto them. I think something else I "should" do is to copy, rather than cut the data from that drive, in order to keep things as they are, because I'm feeling that the USB drive might be getting kind of shaky after more than eight years of storing mostly the same data, and entirely removing the data all at once may cause it to fail entirely. I am still using it for data storage right now.

It did fail entirely after I formatted it. I couldn't delete that partition even after it was formatted. Gparted still sees the entire drive, along with both partitions.However, the file manager (Nemo) no longer sees it at all.

I did actually remove the 320 gigabyte USB drive from the chain, but didn't reboot the computer, and the 110 gig stayed right where it was.
But I'm really hopeful that this will remedy the situation.
Thanks!
Namaste

[Amii_Leigh]

This is how my drives look now since I removed the 320 gigabyte USB drive:

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amii@Basically ~ $ grep -v ^# /etc/fstab
UUID=7fa1ddd9-4c1b-49a1-b93a-170b177bf09b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
UUID=4948c91a-f6dd-44f6-833c-3d663b90fa44 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
amii@Basically ~ $ 

and:

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amii@Basically ~ $ inxi -Dopxx
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 730.2GB (31.1% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD2500JB size: 250.1GB serial: WD-WCANKD182135
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD3200AVVS size: 320.1GB serial: WD-WCAV15542171
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD1600JS size: 160.0GB serial: WD-WCAP01010705
Partition: ID-1: / size: 226G used: 66G (31%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: /media/amii/c980694e-e0a4-43e1-854a-395da4d873a5 size: 143G used: 86G (64%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
           ID-3: /media/amii/36d54b4a-2a9a-41d5-a382-50a8582c2040 size: 290G used: 57G (21%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
           ID-4: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.03GB (1%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5