Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-07-17 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Stumbled upon this somewhat old post, but I'll offer a suggestion nonetheless. And this I just can't get my head around, why is /dev/sda1 not created? /dev/sda shows up as expected and the kernel even recognizes that there is a sda1 partition but the device entry isn't created. Perhaps you

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-26 Thread Bent Terp
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: In short, either partition the drive, or rebuild the drive with a GPT. Yes, I'm back :-D Finally had a chance to try this out, and it works totally on my Fedora16 laptop. But not on the EL6.2 server Mar 26 16:36:00 gpfsnode8

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-23 Thread Bent Terp
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: There's a problem here: MSDOS - that would be an MBR - can only handle 2TB. Now, if it's set up with 4k sectors, it'll do more, but I don't know if there's an interaction there. Works on Win2k8 and Win7, so yes it's 4k sectors. In

[CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-22 Thread Bent Terp
Hi list! I have a 3TB usb drive with an NTFS filesystem on it, that I can't mount.: [bent@bnlaptop ~]$ sudo /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt Failed to read vcn 0xf28: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-22 Thread Barry Brimer
I have a 3TB usb drive with an NTFS filesystem on it, that I can't mount.: [bent@bnlaptop ~]$ sudo /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt Failed to read vcn 0xf28: Input/output error Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-22 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 03/22/2012 01:39 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: I wonder if it uses a GPT partition table or not. I don't remember all the details, but for some reason I think you need a GPT partition table to handle partitions, filesystems, or something over 2 TB. fdisk will tell him that. With a GPT, fdisk

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-22 Thread Bent Terp
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: I wonder if it uses a GPT partition table or not. I don't remember all the details, but for some reason I think you need a GPT partition table to handle partitions, filesystems, or something over 2 TB. I would have

Re: [CentOS] 3TB usb drive won't mount

2012-03-22 Thread m . roth
Bent Terp wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: I wonder if it uses a GPT partition table or not. I don't remember all the details, but for some reason I think you need a GPT partition table to handle partitions, filesystems, or something over 2 TB. I