how to erase a reference to a USB

[opal scroll]

as you can see from the screenshot, the USB says there is a mountable partition, but that is actually false
disks program correctly shows the USB as blank

how to tell thunar that the USB USB drive does NOT have that partition?

mount: /mnt/usb-General_USB_Flash_Disk_1103105800002504-0:0: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.```

[twin mist]

sounds like a weird bug, maybe just make a partition there??

[opal scroll]

did not remove the corrupt reference

[twin mist]

either I lost my mind or this is the 3rd thread since yesterday with the same exact issue that I never saw before

[opal scroll]

is there a way to completely reset Thunar short of a full reinstall or somehow DELETE that corrupted patition reference?

[twin mist]

possibly, but I don't know a fix to this

[opal scroll]

i tried a complete and utter wipe of the USB using a dd command to write 0s all over it

that didn't work either

[twin mist]

I can't find any solution online. but try to reboot, hold/spam ESC, then select advanced options and an older kernel, like 6.8.0-45 (3rd option probably)

[opal scroll]

after bumbling for a bit, i found a solution, create a disk partition with the EXACT name as the corrupted one,