Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

[Ranjan Maitra]

Thanks very much for this!

On Wed Nov06'24 01:30:26PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> From: Jeffrey Walton 
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:30:26 -0500
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> CC: Ranjan Maitra 
> Reply-To: [e-mail], Community support for Fedora users
>  
> Subject: Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40
>
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:54 AM Ranjan Maitra via users
>  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.

Indeed, it is very relevant to my case. lsusb reports:

Bus 003 Device 027: ID 048d:1234 Integrated Technology Express, Inc. Chipsbank CBM2199 Flash Drive

which is the same as mentioned in that site.

Sorry for wasting all your time.

Best wishes,
Ranjan