Re: new WD passport filesystem?

From	Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: new WD passport filesystem?
Date	2011-07-22 11:37 -0400
Organization	National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Haines Brown wrote:

> I've been using various WD Passport external USB drives over the years
> with luck and so recently purchased a 1 Tb USB 3.0 drive (I understand
> that the debian Squeeze kernel supports USB 3). I'm having trouble
> mounting it. I had presumed it came formatted as VFAT16, but:
>
Try mount -t auto ....

That may not work if it's a real odd format, but if it can be mounted, 
then simply running mount by itself will reveal what the drive has been 
mounted as.

   Michael

  > $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000170586112 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121597 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00042ada
>
>  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1    121598   976728064    7  HPFS/NTFS
>
> Formatted HPFS (OS/2?)/NTFS? So I try:
>
>  # mount -t hpfs /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
>  mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>               ...
>
>  $ ls /dev | grep sdb1
>  sdb1
>
>  $ dmesg
>  ...
>  ... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953458176 512-byte logical
>                   blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
>  ... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
>  ... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
>  ...
>  ... sdb: sdb1
>  ... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  ... sd 50:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
>  ... FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
>           filesystem will be case sensitive!
>  ... FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
>  ... VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
>  ... FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset...
>  ... FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
>  ... VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
>  ... HPFS: Bad magic ... probably not HPFS
>  ... HPFS: Bad magic ... probably not HPFS
>
> So is it HPFS or not? If it is, why the FAT error messages? If it is
> not, why did fdisk tell a lie? Has hpfs/ntfs become the default
> file system on devices these days?
>
> Haines Brown
>

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new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 11:31 -0400
  Re: new WD passport filesystem? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2011-07-22 11:37 -0400
  Re: new WD passport filesystem? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 16:46 +0100
    Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 12:28 -0400
      Re: new WD passport filesystem? "Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> - 2011-07-22 17:43 -0500
        Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 21:27 -0400
  Re: new WD passport filesystem? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 15:50 +0000
    Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 12:37 -0400
      Re: new WD passport filesystem? J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-07-22 17:36 +0000
      Re: new WD passport filesystem? Bill Marcum <bill@lat.localnet> - 2011-07-22 14:03 -0400
      Re: new WD passport filesystem? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-07-22 19:42 +0100
        Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-22 21:56 -0400
          Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-22 22:50 -0500
            Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-23 05:01 -0400
              Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-23 13:32 -0500
                Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-24 08:28 -0400
                Re: new WD passport filesystem? scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2011-07-26 16:08 +0000
                Re: new WD passport filesystem? Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-07-27 06:26 -0400
                Re: new WD passport filesystem? felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID> - 2011-07-28 18:46 -0500

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