i’ve been using eos on my starlite laptop (very limited laptop which was made by starlabs) for a few months and experiencing persistent problems with usb flash drives. Eg, a flash drive i was backing up to all day every day (it was auto mounted when plugged) is now no longer detected. If i plug it in and do lsblk immediately i see:
if i do lsbk a moment later it does not appear at all. I recently created a swap file and edited fstab but i don’t think this the cause of the problem (i ran systemctl daemon-reload and have since rebooted). Some sites suggest using fdisk -l to see the drive, but it doesn’t show when i do this.
Any idea what’s happening, ie why a perfectly good flash drive would suddenly become unusable? it’s a big problem because i am not backing up anymore, i relied on the flash drive to back up my files and i relied on another to backup my system using timeshift, that flash drive also stopped working but i assumed it was the fault of timeshift
thanks
edit: i read i should run dmesg -w and then insert usb, this is what i see:
edit2: a person here suggests the following for error -62 which is shown above: “replug it it, then re run lsusb, there will be a few seconds delay! once lsusb picks the device up, just run fsck on it”
is fsck dangerous? could it wipe the usb? if my usb is corrupted i have no idea how that could have happened
edit3: when i run sudo fsck -r /dev/sdb it says “no such device or address while trying to open /dev/sdb …possible non existent or swap device”
edit4: Error -62 does not seem good: "I suspect that the hardware (USB device) is faulty in terms of connection and the kernel simply times out in its attempt to run the device = Error 62. … In the end it was a hardware failure. I turned off the PC, completely shut off the power supply, and let it rest 10 minutes. After that, it never turned on anymore. "
