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I've not had this problem with the Western Digital Passports before, but
a new one (WXQ1C5219385) is not being cooperative.  

The first problem is looking at /var/log/messages to get the drive's
UUID: 

  $ tail -f /var/log/messages
  ... scsi 28:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       My Passport 0748 1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
  ... scsi 28:0:0:1: Enclosure         WD       SES Device       1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
  ... ses 28:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device
  ... ses 28:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 13
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
  ... sdc: sdc1
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
  usbmount[18281]: /dev/sdc does not contain a filesystem or disklabel

I would expect an added line something like: 

   usbmount[11090]: executing command: mount -U 8A2CF4F62CF4DE5F

I suppose usbmount can't mount because there's no UUID entry in
fstab. So I thought if I mounted the device manually, I might then get
the UUID. So I did:

  $ dmesg
  ...
  ... scsi 28:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 0748 1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
  ... scsi 28:0:0:1: Enclosure  WD SES Device 1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
  ...
  ... sd 28:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
  ... sdc: sdc1
  ...

  # mount -t ntfs /dev/sdc1 /media/backup

  $ mount
  ...
  /dev/sdc1 on /media/backup type fuseblk 
            (rw,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

This succeeded to the extent I can write a file to the media and save
it. However, still no UUID reported. How do I get the UUID?

Once mounted manually I see that the WD Passport holds a collection of
directories:

  $ ls -la /media/backups
  ls: cannot access Locale: Input/output error
  ls: cannot access My Passport Apps for Mac: Input/output error
  ls: cannot access User Manuals: Input/output error
  ls: cannot access WD Apps for Windows: Input/output error
  total 13
  drwxrwxrwx  1 haines root   4096 Nov  5 22:28 .
  drwxr-xr-x 14 haines haines 4096 Jul 23  2011 ..
  d--------   root root       4096 Sep 30 21:24 Extras
  d?????????  ? ?      ?         ?            ? Locale
  -rw-r--r--  1 haines haines   25 Nov  5 22:28 MyInfo
  d?????????  ? ?      ?         ?            ? My Passport Apps for Mac
  d---------  1 root   root      0 Sep  2  2011 System Volume Information
  d?????????  ? ?      ?         ?            ? User Manuals
  d?????????  ? ?      ?         ?            ? WD Apps for Windows

The "MyInfo" file is the test file I wrote to the media.

The filesystem is NTFS, and so I thought I would have no problem using
cd, rm, and rmdir commands to get rid of these excess
directories. However, not so:

  $ cd Locale
  bash: cd: Locale: Input/output error

  # cd "System Volume Information"
  sudo: cd: command not found

How do I get rid of them?

Haines Brown
  

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WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-05 23:08 -0500
  Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-06 08:50 +0000
  Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
    Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 05:57 -0500
        Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-17 13:44 +0000
          Re: WD Passport commands Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
          Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 13:25 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-17 20:30 +0000
              Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 05:03 -0500
                Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-20 10:25 +0000
                Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 11:27 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-18 18:16 +0000
            Re: WD Passport commands Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-19 03:03 -0500

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