On Wed Nov06'24 01:50:18PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > From: Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:50:18 -0600 > To: noloa...@gmail.com, Community support for Fedora users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > CC: Ranjan Maitra <mlmai...@gmx.com> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40 > > If you paid less than US$1000, then the only 2 options are: it is > stolen (pretty unlikely as they would still sell it for a high price) > or fake. > > And if it is just a usb key device (not an external disk enclosure) it > must be fake because I don't think you can actually fit the memory > chips for 16tb in something that small. > > So this is likely a much smaller usb device with firmware to make it > appear like a 16tb device.
Indeed, I got taken for a ride, thank you! I will ask for my money back, and see. Just curious, what is the largest amount for which memory chips can currently fit in a USB? 1-2 TB? Or far less? (I was not aware of all these complexities.) Many thanks, Ranjan > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 12:31 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:54 AM Ranjan Maitra via users > > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > > > I recently got a 16TB USB disk and was trying to mount it on Fedora 40 > > > using spacefm. I get the following: > > > > > > Mount /dev/sdb: > > > > > > Status: Finished with error (Exit status 1). > > > > > > Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb is not a mountable file > > > system. > > > > > > My first instinct was that I got taken for a ride so I hopped over to a > > > colleague's Windoze machine, but there the USB drive is visible (with the > > > capacitty of 15.2 GiB, as expected). > > > > > > So, is there anything special that I have to do to mount it on Fedora 40, > > > because of its size? > > > > This looks very relevant to your case: > > <https://askubuntu.com/q/1424120> It even discusses the Chinese > > counterfeit hardware. > > > > Jeff > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Do not reply to spam, report it: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
