Re: Encrypted flash drives
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:02:27AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 08:31:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Tomas has tried to give me pointers on that but I'm afraid I don't
> > understand where to take that. Is there any chance someone who isn't a
> > self-proclaimed "desktop luddite" could comment?
>
> There *must* be some place in your shiny desktop environment "disks"
> or something like that where you configure media "known" to your
> desktop environment.
>
Update -- it *almost* worked. I now have a clean flash drive with the
right partition type and file system, which I get the right permissions
to everywhere, including in Files, when it is mounted. BUT it still is
not auto-detecting when I plug it in.
In Disks, I notice the following:
Even before I do anything, when neither working nor almost-working
drives are plugged in, Disks shows me an entry for one of the USB flash
drives.
If I plug in the almost-working one, it occupies that entry and
populates it with information. If I plug in the working one, a new item
is created for it. If I unmount and remove both usb drives, one of the
two entries disappears and the other one doesn't.
Comparing the two with the drives plugged in and mounted, they look
extremely similar, except for the following. In the working one:
Model: hp v250x (1100)
Size: 8.1GB (8,103,395,328 bytes)
Partitioning: Master Boot Record
Serial Number: <serial number>
In the almost-working one:
Model: hp v250w (1100)
Media: --
Size: --
Partitioning: Master Boot Record
Serial Number: <serial number, of course different from above)
I think I need to persuade this entry to disappear when the device is
not plugged in, then I suspect I will be good.
Any thoughts where this information, which shows even when the
almost-working drive is not plugged in, could be stored, and what would
be a safe way to get rid of it? (Please don't say "reboot", this is
Linux, should be a way to clean up without rebooting)
Thanks
Mark
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