Avoiding reboot: Resetting USB on a Linux machine

Every now and then, some USB device misbehaves badly enough to knock out the entire interface, to the extent that the system doesn’t detect any new USB devices. Or work so well with the existing ones, for that matter. The solution for me until now was to reboot the computer. But hey, I don’t like [...]

Posted Under: Linux,USB
This post was written by eli on February 1, 2013 Comments (72)

A udev rule for my USB stick (disk-on-key)

Introduction I use USB flash sticks for backing up my system periodically by creating an image of the filesystem, and raw-writing it directly to e.g. /dev/sdd1. It’s just a matter of time before I wipe my hard disk by selecting the wrong /dev/something. Or just some other USB stick that happened to be plugged in. [...]

Posted Under: Linux,systemd,udev,USB
This post was written by eli on June 16, 2011 Comments (5)
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