fehlix wrote:Check with lsblk that your device is visble. Your device name might have changed as you have pluged out other device inbitween
Thanks, fehlix.
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NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 58.6G 0 disk
├─sdb2 8:18 1 3.3M 0 part
└─sdb1 8:17 1 1.2G 0 part /media/cat/antiXlive
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
├─sda2 8:2 0 488M 0 part /boot
├─sda3 8:3 0 930.5G 0 part
│ └─sda3_crypt 253:0 0 930.5G 0 crypt
│ ├─mint--vg-root 253:1 0 914.6G 0 lvm /
│ └─mint--vg-swap_1 253:2 0 16G 0 lvm [SWAP]
└─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
sudo umount /dev/sdb1 has successfully unmounted the usb.
And, success! ...
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sudo badblocks -t random -v -w -s /dev/sdb1
Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode
From block 0 to 1243135
Testing with random pattern: done
Reading and comparing: done
Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found. (0/0/0 errors)
I'm wondering if, with the bios/UEFI not having changed, iso and the usb drive both fine, might it be some crud left on the main drive, from some live runs/different installs? I imagine it would take a very long time on a 1tb drive, but would it be good to do some kind of total clean of the drive?