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

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