Assignment of block device disables the creation of /dev/xvdi

Hi, I’m a newbie

Had my Nitrokey PC2 a couple of weeks. May have stumbled on a little issue. In the Global Config - Device Assignment I added a rule to automatically assign an external usb hard drive to Personal. When I tried to mount it (sudo mount /dev/xvdi mnt) it failed. /dev/xvdi was never created. I removed the automatic assignment and then the device file was created as normal and mounted as normal.

Many Thanks
Moss

That sounds worth separating into two checks: whether the disk is attached to the qube at all, and whether the expected partition name is different. In the target qube, run lsblk right after the automatic assignment and compare it with manual attach. A whole disk may show as /dev/xvdi, but a formatted partition is often /dev/xvdi1, so mounting /dev/xvdi can also fail even when the device exists. If lsblk shows nothing only with the rule enabled, then the useful bug detail is the exact rule plus the output of qvm-block in dom0 before and after plugging the drive.