Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Wed Nov06'24 01:50:18PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> From: Roger Heflin 
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 13:50:18 -0600
> To: [e-mail], Community support for Fedora users
>  
> CC: Ranjan Maitra 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> 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  wrote:
> > 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.
> > Jeff
> >
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