15 nbd's found - parted magic
by Stella456 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KCX2)
Hi. I'm not sure if this is the right section, but I ran parted magic live to securely erase a sata ssd drive. I also went to erase the mbr and it came up with something odd. I've done this many times on different drives and normally only the two drives come up. The sata drive and the usb stick that parted magic is running from.
On this occasion it shows 15 more all starting nbd. What on earth is it? And how do I get rid of them?
I tried to upload an image but am having problems doing that - so when I open the list to select a device to be erased, what is listed is
sda (my 232gb ssd)
sdb (16gb flash drive)
nbd0: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd1: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd2: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd3: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd4: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd5: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd6: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd7: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd8:
and so on down to nbd15
These shouldn't be there!
I have erased the drive twice, reformatted and erased again and they are still there. If I go to write zeros to the entire drive (not a good idea I know with an ssd) or go to erase the mbr - it gives me a list of devices to choose from and that includes the 15 nbd's. So I can't seem to erase them, whatever they are. Parted magic thinks they are devices.
On this occasion it shows 15 more all starting nbd. What on earth is it? And how do I get rid of them?
I tried to upload an image but am having problems doing that - so when I open the list to select a device to be erased, what is listed is
sda (my 232gb ssd)
sdb (16gb flash drive)
nbd0: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd1: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd2: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd3: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd4: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd5: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd6: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd7: 0B (Model unknown SN: undetected)
nbd8:
and so on down to nbd15
These shouldn't be there!
I have erased the drive twice, reformatted and erased again and they are still there. If I go to write zeros to the entire drive (not a good idea I know with an ssd) or go to erase the mbr - it gives me a list of devices to choose from and that includes the 15 nbd's. So I can't seem to erase them, whatever they are. Parted magic thinks they are devices.