A USB drive apparently went bad. It keeps trying to mount, over and over, popping up "cannot read superblock" in new popups. I am happy to reformat the whole thing if I could get it to stop trying to mount. I can only stop it by pulling the drive.
Is there a way to get the system to stop trying to mount the bad USB drive so I can try to fix it?
Stop trying to mount already! [solved-ish]
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Stop trying to mount already! [solved-ish]
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Re: Stop trying to mount already!
Try running Gparted. It will unmount disks other that the system you're currently on.
Re: Stop trying to mount already!
The popups continued. gparted did not offer the device to select.
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Re: Stop trying to mount already!
What Desktop environment? In Mate and Cinnamon the settings for auto-mount of external media are in your File manager preferences.
In XFCE there is a separate 'Removable Drives & Media' settings module.
In XFCE there is a separate 'Removable Drives & Media' settings module.
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Re: Stop trying to mount already!
Thanks. Good to know.
Perhaps by accident, I got control of the drive by launching gparted after the drive was inserted and spewing error popup. Deleted the partition; couldn't reformat; tried Windows; did a slow format. The things still squawks when insert. Must be hardware failure. Seeking warranty replacement.
Perhaps by accident, I got control of the drive by launching gparted after the drive was inserted and spewing error popup. Deleted the partition; couldn't reformat; tried Windows; did a slow format. The things still squawks when insert. Must be hardware failure. Seeking warranty replacement.
LM 21.3 Cinnamon; Dell XPS 13 (9343); Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz; 4 GB RAM