I recently bought an external SSD (SanDisk Extreme Pro), and I would like to flag it as a removable device. I did some research before asking it here:
- https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1359208
- https://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/111728-how-make-disk-drive-removable.html
- How do I make my external USB HDD be treated as a removable drive
All these addresses lead to a dead-end. Nevertheless I found a hint in ubuntuforums (1):
For my little thumb drive, the value of /sys/block/sd*/removable is 1.
For my main external drive, the value of /sys/block/sd*/removable is 0.
So in someway I need to change the above value to 1. However it is not easy like open up notebook, change to 1, and save. Is there a way to do that? or any other approach to change the external device to "removable"-flagged.
Why I need this:
I would like to install Tails (a linux distro) into this SSD. However, Tails only works with removable drives.
There is a way to boot Tails with non-removable devices; boot-options and remove "live-media=removable", but I don't wanna remove this part every time from boot, when I want to boot Tails.
One can also change some files in the system, so removing live-media part would be saved for boot. However, I am not a computer genius and I also don't know what I am exactly doing.
Therefore, I follow tutorials, and these tutorials are old and/or not compatible with every device.
Additionally tutorials should be repeated for every upgrade on Tails system. That is why I though the best option would be changing the devices non-removable flag.
