Re: mounting a 16TB USB on Fedora 40

[Jeffrey Walton]

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:
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> Status: Finished with error (Exit status 1).
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> Object /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb is not a mountable file system.
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> 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).
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> 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