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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: 2 TB HDD not automounting under Debian.
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-02-01 16:41:50
Message-ID: CAKDXFkO0CgRVuJJuvjkO4y59b+NU19cxB+MVkDqUjDrCXjUtOw () mail ! gmail ! com
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Maybe the drive is formatted NTFS? NTFS drives won't automount under
my Ubuntu system, either. However, the older FAT partitions had a file
size limit that was too low for todays media so newer large drives
don't use it.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:51 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is on a testing machine What happened is I bought a 2 TB Seagate
> Backup Plus Slim
> couple of days ago. The system is an old system having few USB 2 ports
> while the HDD is USB 3 but supposedly backward compatible. I can see
> the HDD via lsusb and fdisk but for some reason it's unable to
> automount it. Any ideas what could be the issue ?
>
> Sharing what I saw :-
>
> $ lsusb
> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c05a Logitech, Inc. M90/M100 Optical Mouse
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
>
> As can be seen there are few USB 1.1 ports and few 2.0 ports. As can
> be seen Seagate attaches and declares itself at Bus 005 Device 003: ID
> 0bc2:ab24 .
>
> I also checked via fdisk -l and got the following :-
>
> $ sudo fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0xc5f7c5f7
>
> Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
> /dev/sda1               63  102398309  102398247  48.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda2        102398371 1953523711 1851125341 882.7G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5        102398373  204796619  102398247  48.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda6  *     204797952  595421183  390623232 186.3G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7        595423232  790732799  195309568  93.1G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda8        790734848 1943076863 1152342016 549.5G 83 Linux
> /dev/sda9       1943078912 1953523711   10444800     5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
>
> Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>
> Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>
> Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1.8 TiB, 2000398933504 bytes, 3907029167 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x1bc6b3bc
>
> Device     Boot      Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1             2048  952322047  952320000 454.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sdb2        952322048 1904642047  952320000 454.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sdb3       1904642048 2856962047  952320000 454.1G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sdb4       2856962048 3907026943 1050064896 500.7G  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sdb5       2856964096 3907026943 1050062848 500.7G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>
> Except for /dev/sdb4 which says it's W95 the rest of them seem to be
> ok. Then why it is that the disk does not automount ?
>
> I have Seagate Expansion disks and they mount under nautilus or any
> other file storage viewer but not this.
>
> Looking forward to know what could possibly be the reason and if it's
> not related to the kernel guide me to the proper package for the same.
>
> Thank you.
> --
>           Regards,
>           Shirish Agarwal  शिरीष अग्रवाल
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