Re: external USB drives

2019-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 7/4/19 4:33 AM, wwp wrote: Hello, On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:42:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB > drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive labe

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-04 Thread wwp
Hello, On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:42:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Folks, > >  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB > > > drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When > > > I tried

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 18:25 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Device Boot StartEndSectors Size Id Type > /dev/sdc1 * 2048 3907029166 3907027119 1.8T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Don't forget that when you use partitioning tools to look at a drive, they look at the flags on the partitions

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/3/19 6:25 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I managed to figure that out after I sent the email.  What confused me was that for 1 and 2 TB drives fdisk -l says the drives are: Device Boot Start    End    Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1  * 2048 3907029166 3907027119  1.8T  7 HPFS/NTFS/e

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/3/19 6:25 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I managed to figure that out after I sent the email.  What confused me was that for 1 and 2 TB drives fdisk -l says the drives are: Device Boot Start    End    Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1  * 2048 3907029166 3907027119  1.8T  7 HPFS/NTFS/e

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I managed to figure that out after I sent the email.  What confused me was that for 1 and 2 TB drives fdisk -l says the drives are: Device Boot Start    End    Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1  * 2048 3907029166 3907027119  1.8T  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT for 4 and 8 TB drives dfisk -l shows

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supp

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs

external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 0. I have 2 8TB drives

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/15/2013 03:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think > for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access > them, I get an error message stating

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi In case it will not solve the problem,can you please send the output of dmesg after you get the error you mentioned? Regards Rami Rosen On Apr 15, 2013 1:51 AM, "Paul Erickson" wrote: > On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: >> >>> I have a coup

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to acc

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think > for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access > them, I get an error message sta

F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread R. G. Newbury
>> > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >>> >> Hi All, >>> >> >>> >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for >>> >> backup >>> >> from my main file server. ?Most of the ones I see around seem to say >>> >> that >>> >> they want Wondiws somethi

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread L
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup >> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that >> they wan

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup >> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that >> they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful?  Should I >> just be

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup > from my main file server. Most of the ones I see around seem to say that > they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful? Should I >

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have a Seagate 1.5Tb drive and it works just fine with Linux. I use it to back up my Windows 7 system (when I boot up in Windows 7) and my Linux when I boot up in Linux (Fedora 12). Paolo On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) ext

External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi All, I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup from my main file server. Most of the ones I see around seem to say that they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful? Should I just be able to plug it in and use it? Do I need to partition and fo