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Old 09-26-2023, 10:01 AM   #1
mierdatuti
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Can't see partitions in usb drive in linux

Hi,
I plug usb drive and I can't see partitions in gparted. I do:

Code:
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04f2:b520 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd HD WebCam
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:3016 Lite-On Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:a725 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:1234 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] contraseña para david: 
Disco /dev/loop0: 63,45 MiB, 66531328 bytes, 129944 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop1: 4 KiB, 4096 bytes, 8 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop2: 63,46 MiB, 66547712 bytes, 129976 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop3: 73,88 MiB, 77463552 bytes, 151296 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop4: 73,9 MiB, 77492224 bytes, 151352 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop5: 240,61 MiB, 252301312 bytes, 492776 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop6: 241,9 MiB, 253648896 bytes, 495408 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop7: 349,69 MiB, 366673920 bytes, 716160 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/sda: 119,24 GiB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectores
Disk model: LITEON CV3-8D128
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tipo de etiqueta de disco: gpt
Identificador del disco: F4E4B32E-2879-4B9A-A779-74697281D5B8

Dispositivo  Comienzo     Final  Sectores Tamaño Tipo
/dev/sda1        2048    206847    204800   100M Sistema EFI
/dev/sda2      206848    239615     32768    16M Reservado para Microsoft
/dev/sda3      239616 246853631 246614016 117,6G Datos básicos de Microsoft
/dev/sda4   247971840 250068991   2097152     1G Entorno de recuperación de Windows


Disco /dev/sdb: 931,51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectores
Disk model: ST1000LM024 HN-M
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Tipo de etiqueta de disco: gpt
Identificador del disco: 00D1D3C7-2984-4176-B532-6727BAAAEE69

Dispositivo   Comienzo      Final   Sectores Tamaño Tipo
/dev/sdb1         2048 1879291903 1879289856 896,1G Datos básicos de Microsoft
/dev/sdb2   1879291904 1947652095   68360192  32,6G Sistema de ficheros de Linux
/dev/sdb3   1947652096 1953523711    5871616   2,8G Linux swap


Disco /dev/loop8: 349,7 MiB, 366682112 bytes, 716176 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop9: 485,52 MiB, 509100032 bytes, 994336 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop10: 496,88 MiB, 521015296 bytes, 1017608 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop11: 91,69 MiB, 96141312 bytes, 187776 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop12: 45,93 MiB, 48160768 bytes, 94064 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop13: 12,32 MiB, 12922880 bytes, 25240 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop14: 53,26 MiB, 55844864 bytes, 109072 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop15: 40,84 MiB, 42827776 bytes, 83648 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop16: 452 KiB, 462848 bytes, 904 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disco /dev/loop17: 428 KiB, 438272 bytes, 856 sectores
Unidades: sectores de 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Tamaño de E/S (mínimo/óptimo): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Any help? Thanks
 
Old 09-26-2023, 01:01 PM   #2
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Try, you may need to use sudo,
Code:
dmesg | tail
just after plugging it in to see if the system recognizes it...
 
Old 09-27-2023, 03:53 AM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fatmac View Post
Try, you may need to use sudo,
Code:
dmesg | tail
just after plugging it in to see if the system recognizes it...

2063.756951] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 2063.906439] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=1234, bcdDevice= 0.01
[ 2063.906445] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2063.906447] usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 2063.906448] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Alcor Micro
[ 2063.908305] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2063.908492] scsi host3: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 2064.926059] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2064.926662] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2064.926908] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Media removed, stopped polling
[ 2064.927789] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
Last edited by mierdatuti; 09-27-2023 at 03:59 AM.
 
Old 09-27-2023, 05:43 AM   #4
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Not all usb drives come formatted with partitions. Some are formatted as complete drives. Run
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
on it and you will see.
Last edited by hazel; 09-27-2023 at 05:44 AM.
 
Old 09-27-2023, 08:36 AM   #5
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He already fdisk'd it. Looks like it should be sdc, but it's not showing up in the usb listing. If any partitions are on it, they should show when you plug it in. It's not showing a size, either. '[ 2064.926908] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Media removed, stopped polling' doesn't look right.

Working stick for comparison
Code:
2023-09-27T09:24:14.829493-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374954.974130] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 20 using xhci_hcd
2023-09-27T09:24:14.955495-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.100460] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5575, bcdDevice= 1.00
2023-09-27T09:24:14.955514-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.100499] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
2023-09-27T09:24:14.955516-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.100521] usb 1-4: Product: Cruzer Glide
2023-09-27T09:24:14.955518-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.100536] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: SanDisk
2023-09-27T09:24:14.955520-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.100550] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 04011930051021131148
2023-09-27T09:24:14.956491-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.101156] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
2023-09-27T09:24:14.956501-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374955.101387] scsi host4: usb-storage 1-4:1.0
2023-09-27T09:24:15.263425-04:00 atr2 mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 20: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.1/0000:11:00.3/usb1/1-4"
2023-09-27T09:24:15.263912-04:00 atr2 mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 20 was not an MTP device
2023-09-27T09:24:16.005515-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.150979] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Glide     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
2023-09-27T09:24:16.006471-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.151323] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
2023-09-27T09:24:16.006480-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.152044] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 60088320 512-byte logical blocks: (30.8 GB/28.7 GiB)
2023-09-27T09:24:16.007470-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.152953] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
2023-09-27T09:24:16.009466-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.154400] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
2023-09-27T09:24:16.029476-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.174210]  sdb: sdb1
2023-09-27T09:24:16.029487-04:00 atr2 kernel: [1374956.174429] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Do you have any others to test?
 
Old 09-27-2023, 09:09 AM   #6
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Hey Guys, i am in a big trouble. please help me.i have a usb flash drive of 8 gb but in my kali linux it is only showing 5 gb. I have already formated it many times but it is still partitioned.how can i completely format it and make it again as new. please reply me ��
 
Old 09-27-2023, 09:26 AM   #7
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Hey Guys, i am in a big trouble. please help me.i have a usb flash drive of 8 gb but in my kali linux it is only showing 5 gb. I have already formated it many times but it is still partitioned.how can i completely format it and make it again as new. please reply me ��
1. Don't hijack someone else's thread. That's rude! Start your own.
2. If you're a newbie, you should not be using Kali. It's a distro for professional penetration testers.
3. Some cheap flash drives don't have the volume they are advertised at.

Update: Galaxy has now opened a new thread for this problem. If anyone wants to help, I suggest they do so there and not here.
Last edited by hazel; 09-27-2023 at 09:29 AM. Reason: Added paragraph
 
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Old 09-27-2023, 11:26 AM   #8
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mierdatuti View Post
2063.756951] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using xhci_hcd
[ 2063.906439] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=1234, bcdDevice= 0.01
[ 2063.906445] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 2063.906447] usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 2063.906448] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Alcor Micro
[ 2063.908305] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2063.908492] scsi host3: usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 2064.926059] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2064.926662] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2064.926908] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Media removed, stopped polling
[ 2064.927789] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
This shows that it is being recognised as /dev/sdc - so now try mounting it from the commandline.

Code:
sudo mount /dev/sdc /mnt
If it mounts to /mnt, the whole drive was formatted, if it doesn't mount, try running

Code:
sudo fdisk /dev/sdc
Press p to see what it is recognized as, it will also say what filesystem - press q to quit, without doing anything to it.
Last edited by fatmac; 09-27-2023 at 11:28 AM.
 
Old 09-27-2023, 10:25 PM   #9
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A couple of commands to see what is on the drive:
  • file -s /dev/sdc
  • lsblk -f /dev/sdc
Both need to be run as root.
 
  


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