Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

[Ranjan Maitra]

Thanks, Michael!

On Wed Nov06'24 11:58:15AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> From: Michael Hennebry 
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 11:58:15 -0600 (CST)
> To: Ranjan Maitra via users 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40
>
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024, 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:
>
> I think that you need a number after sdb .
> Do you have it formatted as one massive filesystem?

Just to be "safe," I formatted it using that Windoze box. It appears to be formatted as one massive 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).
>
> I expect you meant 15.2 Tsomething.

Yes, right: I have never seen such a massive USB which is why I got it to check it out:-)

Best wishes,
Ranjan
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