21.1 has ghost USB. can't get rid of it?

[bjr23]

I've deleted the ghost files from the USB Ghost (no flash drive inserted) but the drive still shows in file explorer under devices Nemo 5.6.1 I've restarted the computer but the USB still shows in Nemo? How can I delete the USB in Nemo?

[Cosmo.]

Please provide a screenshot for this mystery. What does Disks say?

[bjr23]

screen shot is 'bout worthless, when I enlarge the shot it's TOO blurry. In Nemo It just show under devices USB with the mount symbol. under Disk it shows the normal hard drives and the cdrom and NO USB. I don't know how to get a good screenshot that's not blurry.

[bjr23]

Okay I tried a screenshot of the Properties Nemo device USB and I think you'll be able to see it. It show the directory as a "inode/directory" I don't know what that is and I can't delete it either?

[Cosmo.]

Unmount it and plug it out.

I do not see any hint, that this is a ghost.

[bjr23]

It's what I call a ghost in that there's no USB drive inserted (Long Gone). The files that were showing on that drive have been deleted and all that left is the Icon on the main page and in the Devices folder. I don't understand why it's still showing up under devices when there's nothing plugged in?

[JerryF]

Have you tried clicking on the Eject icon?

It's the arrow next to "20 GB Volume".

[Cosmo.]

Does the ghost show in Disks or not?

Open Users & Groups and create a new account for testing. Reboot and log into the new account. How does it appear there?

[bjr23]

under Disk it shows the normal hard drives and the cdrom and NO USB. I did answer earlier.

[bjr23]

Also, there is NO EJECT button.

[Cosmo.]

Also, there is NO EJECT button.

In your screenshot you showed one.

[bjr23]

Just mount/unmount is all and nothing happens when those buttons are used. Nothing happens when I right mouse click any options there either.

[Cosmo.]

The result in a test account?

[JerryF]

Ok. Let's get some information so that we can get to the bottom of this.

Please copy the following compound command:

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mount | sort && lsblk -al

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[bjr23]

Is This what you want??

mount | sort && lsblk -al

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bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=22924)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=6574508k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=6574504k,nr_inodes=1643626,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=32809928k,nr_inodes=8202482,mode=755,inode64)

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NAME      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0       7:0    0     0B  0 loop 
loop1       7:1    0     0B  0 loop 
loop2       7:2    0     0B  0 loop 
loop3       7:3    0     0B  0 loop 
loop4       7:4    0     0B  0 loop 
loop5       7:5    0     0B  0 loop 
loop6       7:6    0     0B  0 loop 
loop7       7:7    0     0B  0 loop 
sda         8:0    0 447.1G  0 disk 
sda1        8:1    0   524M  0 part /boot/efi
sda2        8:2    0  18.6G  0 part 
sda3        8:3    0   882M  0 part [SWAP]
sda4        8:4    0     5M  0 part 
sda5        8:5    0   525M  0 part 
sda6        8:6    0  18.6G  0 part /
sda7        8:7    0   882M  0 part [SWAP]
sda8        8:8    0     5M  0 part 
sr0        11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
nvme0n1   259:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   499M  0 part 
nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   128M  0 part 
nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 460.5G  0 part 
nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   4.7G  0 part

[bjr23]

I finally found the brackets you were talking about so I pasted again

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[mount | sort && lsblk -al
bpf on /sys/fs/bpf type bpf (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
cgroup2 on /sys/fs/cgroup type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
none on /run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service type ramfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700)
portal on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=22924)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=6574508k,mode=755,inode64)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=6574504k,nr_inodes=1643626,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64)
tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=32809928k,nr_inodes=8202482,mode=755,inode64)
NAME      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0       7:0    0     0B  0 loop 
loop1       7:1    0     0B  0 loop 
loop2       7:2    0     0B  0 loop 
loop3       7:3    0     0B  0 loop 
loop4       7:4    0     0B  0 loop 
loop5       7:5    0     0B  0 loop 
loop6       7:6    0     0B  0 loop 
loop7       7:7    0     0B  0 loop 
sda         8:0    0 447.1G  0 disk 
sda1        8:1    0   524M  0 part /boot/efi
sda2        8:2    0  18.6G  0 part 
sda3        8:3    0   882M  0 part [SWAP]
sda4        8:4    0     5M  0 part 
sda5        8:5    0   525M  0 part 
sda6        8:6    0  18.6G  0 part /
sda7        8:7    0   882M  0 part [SWAP]
sda8        8:8    0     5M  0 part 
sr0        11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
nvme0n1   259:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   499M  0 part 
nvme0n1p2 259:2    0   128M  0 part 
nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 460.5G  0 part 
nvme0n1p4 259:4    0   4.7G  0 part ]

[bjr23]

the text instead of Blacks, it's now Greens, and I Don't know what that means? Yes, I deliberately rhymed it.

[JerryF]

Run this command in Terminal and see if it disappears:

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sudo umount --force /dev/sda6

[bjr23]

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[sudo umount --force /dev/sda6
umount: /: target is busy.
]

[bjr23]

Could I try sda2?