Date: Sunday, October 30, 2016 19:52:55 -0400
From: fred roller <fredroller66(a)gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <
mikes(a)kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
>
> Would be interest to see how gparted sees the existing format,
> since ntfs should not be a problem if you have ntfs-3g installed?
>
gparted isn't seeing anything near as I can tell, hence the request
for dmesg info... sounds like some background system work is
happening but is getting caught up somewhere. I agree with
fat16/32 limitations especially since the OP is archiving images
which can get rather large. Formatting just seemed easiest as a
way to eliminate some possibilities because of fat fs wide
acceptance. If it works, then it was a file system issue and if
not then most likely a deeper hardware issue. If the former then a
matter of installing support for the desired fs or format to one
that best suits OP's needs. I am not thinking the latter because a
couple articles where the posting OPs' stated they plugged in the
drive and the system recognized it including Eddie above; but,
technologies change and WD firmware may be conflicting with the
OP's system since the are just purchased. At this point it is just
conjecture until we get a better picture.
The 2TB "WD passport" that I have worked "out of the box" on my
(centos-6 and -7) systems -- with ntfs-3g installed. If you plan to
use them exclusively on linux systems they can be reformatted to
ext4, which then lets you (among other things) use rhel/fedora
built-in encryption capabilities.
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Richard,
That is exactly what I want to do, but so far I have not been able to
get it mounted in F24. I hope to be able to connect the other two to
Centos 7.2 machines.
Greg
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