On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 04:45:03PM -0500, Ward Family wrote:
> Also tried attaching the partition with the same result. It's still saying
> that
> 
> "special device /dev/xvdi does not exist" (or xvdi1 as the case may be)
> 
> This recurs across a variety of usb external devices, including those
> without partitions.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:10 AM awokd <aw...@danwin1210.me> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, August 27, 2018 11:35 am, Ward Family wrote:
> > > Using fdisk -l in sys-usb (prior to attaching elswhere) produces:
> > > Disk /dev/sda: 28.7 GiB, 30752000000 bytes, 60062500 sectors
> > > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > > Disklabel type: dos
> > > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> > >
> > >
> > > Device         Boot Start           End      Sectors     Size  Id
> > > Type
> > > /dev/sda1                32   60062499   60062468   28.7G   c   W95
> > > FAT32   (LBA)
> >
> > That looks normal. Try attaching just the partition instead:
> > qvm-block attach usb1 sys-usb:sda1
> >
> > Attaching the whole device might have resulted in the partition ending up
> > on /dev/xvdi1 instead. Running qvm-block by itself after the attach should
> > tell you what device it's on.
> >
> >
> >

Please don't top post.

Dod you check the logs on sys-usb to make sure that the process has not
crashed there?

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