On 02/02/2015, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/02/2015, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under >> my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file >> size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives >> don't use it. >> >> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> This is on a testing machine What happened is I bought a 2 TB Seagate >>> Backup Plus Slim >>> couple of days ago. The system is an old system having few USB 2 ports >>> while the HDD is USB 3 but supposedly backward compatible. I can see >>> the HDD via lsusb and fdisk but for some reason it's unable to >>> automount it. Any ideas what could be the issue ? >>> >> > > I have USB external drives that I understand to be NTFS, that > automount, on Debian 6 (both before LTS, and, with LTS), so I think > that that might not be a problem. > > I have just checked. > > I have an HP USB external HDD, 500GB. It is NTFS, as shown in the > Debian 6 system Disk Utility. > > It automounts on Debian 6LTS, and, it had been automounting on this > Debian 6 system, before the LTS. > > So, I believe that it is not an issue to do with NTFS. >
Hello. In the midst of attempting (yet again - multiple previous attempts, on previous versions) to install PC-BSD 10.1.1, in the PC-BSD handbook -> installation procedure, is " Partition disk with GPT: GPT is a partition table layout that supports larger partition sizes than the traditional MBR layout. If your installation disk/partition is larger than 2 TB, this box must be checked, otherwise checking this box is optional. Some older motherboards do not support this option. " So, I am wondering whether you need to use a GPT system, to get the 2GB drive working as you want it to work. Do you have a GPT system, for you to try with the drive, to find whether it behaves differently, and automounts? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CACX6j8P3pjvN=ojlney1zw+swon_fly3zdtfiquj8xsjab6...@mail.gmail.com
