On 10/30/2016 06:45 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Michael,
Thanks for your help
I have ntfs-3g installed as well as ntfsprogs.
gparted does not recognize the drive
fdisk -l pauses after displaying every other file system on the
machine, and then returns the prompt without any notice that it has
recognized the WD drive.
lsusb does recognize the drive as :
Bus 008 Device 010: ID 1058:259d Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
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I would check if you have the ntfs support installed.
rpm -qa | grep ntfs
Should have the ntfs-3g installed, probable don't need ntfsprogs, but I
use
them.
I have used gparted on linux to redo disks on many occassiions
dnf install gparted.
Had a student that had a large disk that was somehow formated to mac
format, so ended up using gparted to make the disk half mac/ half ntfs
so she
could save files from both systems and use options that Fat32 don't
support.
Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format, since
ntfs
should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed?
On 30 Oct 2016 at 15:15, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Subject: WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drive problem
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Everyone,
I just purchased 3 WD My Passport Ultra 3T usb drives that I had
hoped
to use for archive files for some digital images.
Looks like WD has made it difficult to use for Linux. The google
searches that I did stepped me through mounting it on a Windows 10
system and then formatting it with nts. Unfortuantely, when I tried
to
connect it to Fedora 24 I am still not able to recognize it to mount
it. All of the /dev/sd* entries were the same before and after I
plugged it in. Smartmontools appears to recognize it when it is
plugged in a usb port, but pauses and does not finish its execution
to
completion. gparted scans all devices and does not finish when the
drive is plugged in a usb port.
Has anyone in the group figured out how to use these drives?
Thanks for you help!!!!
Greg Ennis
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Greg,
run
ls -1 /dev/sd*
and see if all drives (and their partitions), including your 3DB WD
disk, are listed.
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