Bug 112681

Summary:	kernel marks internal drives as being removable
Product:	IO/Storage	Reporter:	Silviu C. (silviucc)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	io_other
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	t.wede
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	4.4.2	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Silviu C. 2016-02-18 10:24:41 UTC

Hello,

With the 4.4 series kernel something changed so that now all my internal drives show up as removable drives. 
 
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silviu@trusty:~$ blkid 
/dev/sda1: UUID="da5a7ade-9505-4b81-a572-6fa2b528f864" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="0c1b3191-8229-49bd-983a-4df21c8e93b6" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdc5: UUID="95018fd9-2d30-4d41-abf1-e925fe91c88e" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdc6: LABEL="moving_stuff" UUID="6476063E480A6794" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdd1: LABEL="Storage" UUID="EE8C01F18C01B4DD" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sdd5: LABEL="lin_games" UUID="63c83f5a-407d-4617-ab9d-0a4d13af4b86" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sde1: LABEL="downloads_drive" UUID="4e33b7a3-c6cf-499b-924c-cea17d535da0" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdf1: UUID="7AF8EE0CF8EDC70B" TYPE="ntfs" 
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silviu@trusty:~$ cat /sys/class/block/sda/removable
1
silviu@trusty:~$ cat /sys/class/block/sdb/removable
1
silviu@trusty:~$ cat /sys/class/block/sdc/removable
1
[etc...]

If I turn off the hotswap option in the UEFI, this does not happen anymore. Yes, technically, with hotswap enabled, the drives are removable but this also causes gvfs to automount the various volumes on them.
 
This did not happen with any previous kernel from the 4.3 series or earlier.

Comment 1 t.wede 2016-02-23 20:29:15 UTC

The Kernel now supports hotplug on SATA devices.
Depending on the BIOS this could make problems.

Please see Bug 111651.

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111651

Comment 2 Silviu C. 2016-02-23 22:09:14 UTC

Marking this as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 111651 ***