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Deepak Rajput
Asked: 2011-11-14 20:14:15 +0800 CST

Disable usb mass storage

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I want to disable usb mass storage on Ubuntu desktop 10.04, 11.04 and 11.10.

As security policy to avoid data leakage. But in case of emergency there easy way getting usb mass storage back.

usb

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Blacklist the usb_storage module by adding blacklist usb_storage to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

    To load the module manually, run sudo modprobe usb_storage.

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  2. Just rename storage to storage-old:

    mv /lib/modules/3.2.0-35-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/usb/storage /lib/modules/3.2.0-35-generic-pae/kernel/drivers/usb/storage-old

    You must do so when the kernel version updated

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  3. just rename storage to storage-old:

    for me renaming as /lib/modules/3.2.0-29-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/storage-old

    just didn't work , but when i created tar archive named storage-old.tar and deleted storage-old the method seems to work

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