[SOLVED] Flash drive coming up as Loop Device

zavmat · 02-11-2019, 04:06 PM

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

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.