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zavmat 02-11-2019 04:06 PM
Flash drive coming up as Loop Device
 
I mounted a windows image onto a usb for recovery purposes, but I needed it for file transfer again. I formatted the drive to delete everything on and formatted it as NTFS but after ejecting and plugging back in it's coming up as a loop device. How can I make my flash drive able to simply store and transfer files again?

Thanks.

RandomTroll 02-11-2019 05:21 PM
What command do you use? What's in /etc/fstab ?

zavmat 02-11-2019 05:56 PM
I used fdisk -l
I just typed /etc/fstab from root and it says
Code:
-bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied

scasey 02-11-2019 06:08 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by zavmat (Post 5960785)
I used fdisk -l
I just typed /etc/fstab from root and it says
Code:
-bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
Too see what's in /etc/fstab use cat:
Code:
cat /etc/fstab

zavmat 02-11-2019 06:20 PM
Code:
[root@localhost-live ~]# cat /etc/fstab
vartmp  /var/tmp    tmpfs  defaults  0  0

zavmat 02-11-2019 07:37 PM
I formatted it through the disk GUI. I originally formatted the disk for the windows iso with woeusb.

I looked through fdisk again and the flash drive is also showing up as /dev/sdb with less space.

zavmat 02-12-2019 09:47 AM
I reformatted the flash drive to fat32 (unintentionally) using command
Code:
mkvs.vfat /dev/sdb
From that point it began to show up in in disk utility where I formatted it to NTFS.

Thanks for the help.

jefro 02-12-2019 02:53 PM
I'd have never guessed that. Thanks for the update and solution.


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