From the movie Cool Hand Luke : ""What we've got here is failure to communicate"
I've looked at the output from lsblk 5 or 6 time and never noticed that the SIZE of sda1 and sda2 were NON-ZERO ! I just ASSUMED that because Trixie did not mount it under /media/... that the NVME/SSD was not there ! The block device is there and I DO know how to mount it !
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU !!!!
YOU ARE ALL CORRECT !And that is the key question.What is device /dev/sda and it's partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2?
It's also the reason for my "confused" post above. Either the OS or USB device is lying and it is a USB to NVMe adapter, the drive is SATA not NVMe, the drive is bothy SATA and NVMe (and teh adpater is telling the truth), or there is another USB3 SATA adapter connected and teh Pi does nto recognise the M.2/USB3 adapter at all.
I've looked at the output from lsblk 5 or 6 time and never noticed that the SIZE of sda1 and sda2 were NON-ZERO ! I just ASSUMED that because Trixie did not mount it under /media/... that the NVME/SSD was not there ! The block device is there and I DO know how to mount it !
I don't understand why bls' post made my synapses connect, but it did !Dude...judging by all your exclamation points perhaps you had a wee bit too much coffee. I'd suggest that you take a few minutes to chill.
The last picture you posted shows a /dev/sda with 2 partitions on it. You have not explained what disk that is. I suggest that it is your USB-connected NVMe disk. Such a disk will be named /dev/sdX, NOT /dev/nvme0n1 etc. Is this what's confusing you?
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU !!!!
Statistics: Posted by theoldwizard1 — Tue Feb 10, 2026 10:48 pm