Re: new WD passport filesystem?

From	Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: new WD passport filesystem?
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Date	2011-07-22 21:27 -0400
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"Trevor Hemsley" <Trevor.Hemsley@mytrousers.ntlworld.com> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:28:58 UTC in comp.os.linux.hardware, Haines Brown 
> <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> wrote:
>
>> meanwhile I did manage to mount the
>> disk successfully with mount -t hpfs.
>
> I would be astonished if this were true as HPFS is understood only by
> OS/2, Windows NT 3.1 and Linux. I cannot imagine WD restricting their
> market to that vanishingly small segment! I suspect you actually meant
> NTFS which is a filesystem used by more recent versions of Windows
> installed a few billion machines. While HPFS and NTFS share the same
> partition table id, there is not much else that they share.

No, I mounted the disk as hpfs and am currently doing a backup to
it. Apparently the WD external drive is NTFS rather than VFAT, but my
mount command that specified HPFS nevertheless somehow mounted it.

         # fsck /dev/sdb1
         fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
         fsck: fsck.ntfs: not found
         fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.ntfs for /dev/sdb1

This suggests the drive is definitely NTFS.

         # 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

My vague recollection (which has little to recommend it) is that
Microsoft "borrowed" HPFS from IBM.

I see this:  

         $ mount
         ...
         /dev/sda8 on /var type ext4 (rw)
         fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
         /dev/sdb1 on /media/backup type fuseblk 
                   (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096)

I don't understand FUSE, but could it be salvaging my mount? In
otherwords, is it allowing type "fuseblk" to substitute for an unknown
HPFS type?

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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