Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.
Hi all,
@Dotan It is NTFS. But then the Expansion drives were also NTFS. I do have
the NTFS-3g package installed. What is/was cool is that Expansion
drives auto-mounted without an issue and still do. I dunno why it's
not able to do that with backup plus.
On 2/1/15, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@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 <shirishag75@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 ?
>>
>> Sharing what I saw :-
>>
>> $ lsusb
>> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC
>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
>> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
>> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>>
>> As can be seen there are few USB 1.1 ports and few 2.0 ports. As can
>> be seen Seagate attaches and declares itself at Bus 005 Device 003: ID
>> 0bc2:ab24 .
>>
>> I also checked via fdisk -l and got the following :-
>>
>> $ sudo fdisk -l
>>
>> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>> Disklabel type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0xc5f7c5f7
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
>> /dev/sda1 63 102398309 102398247 48.8G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sda2 102398371 1953523711 1851125341 882.7G f W95 Ext'd
>> (LBA)
>> /dev/sda5 102398373 204796619 102398247 48.8G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sda6 * 204797952 595421183 390623232 186.3G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda7 595423232 790732799 195309568 93.1G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda8 790734848 1943076863 1152342016 549.5G 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda9 1943078912 1953523711 10444800 5G 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>>
>> Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>>
>> Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>>
>> Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398933504 bytes, 3907029167 sectors
>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disklabel type: dos
>> Disk identifier: 0x1bc6b3bc
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
>> /dev/sdb1 2048 952322047 952320000 454.1G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sdb2 952322048 1904642047 952320000 454.1G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sdb3 1904642048 2856962047 952320000 454.1G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>> /dev/sdb4 2856962048 3907026943 1050064896 500.7G f W95 Ext'd
>> (LBA)
>> /dev/sdb5 2856964096 3907026943 1050062848 500.7G 7
>> HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>>
>> Except for /dev/sdb4 which says it's W95 the rest of them seem to be
>> ok. Then why it is that the disk does not automount ?
>>
>> I have Seagate Expansion disks and they mount under nautilus or any
>> other file storage viewer but not this.
>>
>> Looking forward to know what could possibly be the reason and if it's
>> not related to the kernel guide me to the proper package for the same.
>>
>> Thank you.
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