Hi,
First of all, I thank you for the great tool that you provide.
Now, I encountered a problem with an 512 GB USB flash drive that
I bought recently and I wonder if it is related with the device
itself or with the LUKS encryption that I put on it. I therefore
seek your help. I have read the FAQ and searched the web for
similar problems and I really do not know what I could do more to
find a software fix to the problem.
There has been no physical damage to the drive and since I have used it very scarcely so far, I would be really surprised, if it had worn down already. It is a few months old and I only did occasional backups on it.
First, the USB drive started to change its permissions to write
protected when I was doing file transfers. Then, I run the
system utility tool fsck to check and fix the filesystem as I
suspected that errors therein might cause the behaviour. After
running fsck unsuccessfully, the USB drive stopped working
altogether and I cannot do anything with it. My systems
(Linux Mint / Debian) do detect the USB drive itself (lsusb,
lsblk), but the partition table seems to be gone now. I have tried
to format the drive by different methods, but any intent gives
errors and gets stuck. Disks, Gparted, mkusb, dd... but all to no
avail.
Please note that I do not need to recover the data, as they were backups only. I want to format it and use the device again, in the case that there is not some inherent damage to it.
My question is: Can the LUKS encryption itself cause the described behaviour?
I can give you more details if there is still hope to find a software fix.
Kind regards,
Kasperi
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