[SOLVED] My USB drives show up in dmesg, lsusb but not fdisk nor cfidsk

[elder solstice]

Re-installed Arch like last week. And for some reason, all of my three USB drives (all of which are working 100% fine) aren't showing up on fdisk or cfdisk, so I can't use them, this includes the medium which I used to boot up Arch. They are showing in dmesg and lsusb however, and they also aren't reporting any errors in dmesg. I sincerely have no clue what's going on.

[winter frost]

are they in lsblk

[elder solstice]

@elder solstice

yeah @winter frost

seems like a fdisk problem if you ask me

if thats possible

[winter frost]

you should point your fdisk/cfdisk to /dev/whatever-they-show-up-as then

like this: here i have my external ssd as sdb

[elder solstice]

wait NOW they show up in fdisk

[winter frost]

so if i want to partition it, i should do sudo cfdisk /dev/sdb

[elder solstice]

matter of fact, its are already mounted

[winter frost]

well thats weirdly convenient

ventoy?

[elder solstice]

yeah

i was gonna use that usb to store my isos

[winter frost]

well, good luck with that anyway

... solved

[lament robin]

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[elder solstice]

i just rebooted two times (not related to this issue)

thats all i did