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
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdd1 34 262177 262144 128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdd2 264192 15628052479 15627788288 7.3T Microsoft basic data
so I assumed (incorrectly) FAT. It was only afterwards that I thought NTFS.
Oh well, live and learn :-)
Paolo
On 7/3/19 3:42 PM, 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 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 which I labeled some time ago without a problem,
but now I get the same error when I try to print out the drive label
dosfslabel /dev/sdd2
Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 0.
The new drive shows up on the desktop as:
"Seagate Expansion Drive"
I tried the same thing on F30 with the same result.
Can someone tell me what's going on?
Paolo
Hi Paolo,
It is probably formatted in NTFS.
The best way I have found for setting drive labes is
gparted
# dnf install gparted
It is a graphical interface4 and gives you tons of information.
First thing I would do it check to see if it is NTFS.
The label is under the "partition" drop down.
And you can always wipe and create whatever partition type
you want.
HTH,
-T
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