On July 23, 2021 at 10:05 PM Michael Hamilton
wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2021, mcgarrett wrote:
Note that I had disconnected ssd /dev/sda. I used fdisk to determine what the usb stick was called, and it said sda. History (in part):
If you need a way to do a quick check of what drives are connected to what device names, the lsscsi command is probably the easiest. For example, on my system:
% lsscsi [0:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 850 2B6Q /dev/sda [1:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 860 3B6Q /dev/sdb [2:0:0:0] disk ATA ST3000DM008-2DM1 CC26 /dev/sdc [3:0:0:0] disk ATA ST4000DM004-2CV1 0001 /dev/sdd [6:0:0:0] disk Generic- USB3.0 CRW -0 1.00 /dev/sde [6:0:0:1] disk Generic- USB3.0 CRW -1 1.00 /dev/sdf [6:0:0:2] disk Generic- USB3.0 CRW -2 1.00 /dev/sdg [7:0:0:0] disk JetFlash Transcend 16GB 1100 /dev/sdh
So my 16GB Transend stick is definitely /dev/sdh
One nice thing about imagewriter is that it will only allow you to pick usb-drives.
doug@linux1:~> lsscsi [4:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GP08LU11 KX01 /dev/sr0 [5:0:0:0] disk VendorCo ProductCode 2.00 /dev/sda Now I'm even more confused. Several apps (including gParted, which has disappeared) say that the ssd is /dev/nvme0n1, but this app says it's /dev/sda. As I mentioned before, the drive that I was sure was called /dev/sda, an was add-on ssd. But the machine is all out of whack. In the meantime, I can't install imagewriter--it's a repo problem, apparently. I hope the temporary computer I ordered comes soon! When it does, I will try to reinstall everything and see what happens. --doug --doug
Best of luck with the lightning recovery.
Michael