Disable NVME drive in Live session?

[byterhythm]

Hi, I wanted to know if there is a way to disable a drive in the Live session so that the installer and gparted will not detect the drive.

I'm just asking because it is tedious to physically remove a NVME drive and there is no option to disable it in bios.

[JayM]

Unmount it in Thunar or gparted.

[dolphin_oracle]

why do you need to remove the nvme drive?

[byterhythm]

Unmount it in Thunar or gparted.

Thanks. I'll try that.

why do you need to remove the nvme drive?

It has my Windows installation and I don't want to mess it up like I did before.

[dolphin_oracle]

Unmount it in Thunar or gparted.

Thanks. I'll try that.

why do you need to remove the nvme drive?

It has my Windows installation and I don't want to mess it up like I did before.

10-4 gotcha. quick tip...if the partitions on your windows drive are labeled, those labels will show up in the installer custom install partition selection boxes.

[byterhythm]

10-4 gotcha. quick tip...if the partitions on your windows drive are labeled, those labels will show up in the installer custom install partition selection boxes.

Thanks for the tip. I got confused with the ESP partition when I first installed MX and it installed the boot loader in the NVME drive.

[JayM]

Unmount it in Thunar or gparted.

Thanks. I'll try that.

This will only hide it in the actual live session, not in the installer, fyi.

[byterhythm]

If I delete the files

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/dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1p1
/dev/nvme0n1p2

Will that have the effect of disabling the drive?

[dolphin_oracle]

If I delete the files

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/dev/nvme0n1
/dev/nvme0n1p1
/dev/nvme0n1p2

Will that have the effect of disabling the drive?

I have never tried such a thing, but its generally frowned upon to remove things from /dev manually.

you could try doing a udev poweroff on the device. That might work.

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udisksctl power-off -b /dev/whatever

[byterhythm]

I have never tried such a thing, but its generally frowned upon to remove things from /dev manually.
you could try doing a udev poweroff on the device. That might work.

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udisksctl power-off -b /dev/whatever

I tried it but it's telling me that its not a usb device.

I eventually tried manually deleting the block device files in /dev/. I just wasnt sure what the outcome will be when I deleted them but that seemed to have completely disabled the device in the system. Gparted and the MX installer did not detect the drive.