Re: USB drives

2025-07-11 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Here's my udev.conf # see udev.conf(5) for details # # udevd is also started in the initrd.  When this file is modified you might # also want to rebuild the initrd, so that it will include the modified configuration. #udev_log=info #children_max= #exec_delay= #event_timeout=180 #timeout_signal

Re: USB drives

2025-07-11 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM Paolo Galtieri wrote: > My fstab was created in 2021 > > # > # /etc/fstab > # Created by anaconda on Mon Feb 1 09:40:27 2021 > # > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'. > # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blk

Re: USB drives

2025-07-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
My fstab was created in 2021 # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Feb  1 09:40:27 2021 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk/'. # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info. # # After editing this file, run 'systemctl daemo

Re: USB drives

2025-07-10 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2025-07-10 at 14:47 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > So why do some drives work and others don't?  On the F41 system the > drives that do mount automatically when I login are the NTFS drives and > the btrfs drive the ext4 drives don't.  The fact that the ext4 drives > don't mount automatic

USB drives

2025-07-10 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I have 3 systems, one is running F41 and the other 2 are running F42.  Since F41 not all my USB drives are getting mounted when I login.  In F40 all my USB drives were mounted and accessible when I logged in.  What do I need to do to make sure all me USB drives are mounted?  This is

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-07-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
Here I am away for the weekend and I again lost access to USB drives. I tried this and it did not fix things. Oh, well.  But rebooting until I get back tomorrow night. On 6/23/25 8:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 08:32 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Reading between the lines, I suspect that this won't be that useful in > > the OP's case. The apps will be restarted, but if any of them are doing > > long-running computations that won't in itself be enough unless the > > apps in quest

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 6:03 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 00:24 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Why don't you give reboot a try? I have s much running that rebooting

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 4:02 AM, Francis Montagnac wrote: Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:41:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: "all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. I that happens again, you may try to unload the related kernel modules (uas usb_storage I think

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/23/25 12:24 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Why don't you give reboot a try? I have s much running that rebooting is a last effort.  It is not trivial to get everything back a

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Francis Montagnac
Hi On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:41:29 -0400 Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: > "all it took" was that reboot. > drives are showing again and I can mount them. I that happens again, you may try to unload the related kernel modules (uas usb_storage I think), then insert again the USB drive. Thus:

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2025-06-23 at 00:24 -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: > > On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: > > > > > Why don't you give reboot a try? > > > > I have s much running that rebooting is a last effort.  It is not >

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 04:17:46PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: Why don't you give reboot a try? I have s much running that rebooting is a last effort.  It is not trivial to get everything back as it was. I use MATE, I assume there is s

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I actually did that for one set of files.  But I DO need to get the USB functionality working, so reboot time. yuck. On 6/22/25 6:15 PM, bruce wrote: are both machines in the network   pingable. if they are, can u sync from a to be On Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 6:13 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg sho

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
"all it took" was that reboot. drives are showing again and I can mount them. Now I have to get my work back as it was. On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wro

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread bruce
are both machines in the network pingable. if they are, can u sync from a to be On Sun, Jun 22, 2025, 6:13 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: > >>> On 6/22/2

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg show? Too much for me to figure out what to look for. Run "sudo journalctl -fa" in a terminal, the

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 6:12 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 6/22/25 4:22 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: What does dmesg show? Too much for me to figure out what to look for. Ru

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Marco Moock
On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: > What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel? What does dmesg show? Why don't you give reboot a try? -- ___ users mailing list -- users@lists

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
ve is broken or there's a USB problem. I have tried different USB drives that work well, right now, in other systems.  It is only this notebook that is no longer responding to drive insertions. What does dmesg show? Too much for me to figure out what to look for. Run "sudo journ

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/22/25 1:17 PM, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote: On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel? All I was doing was inserting a USB drive, m

Re: F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
On 6/22/25 3:38 PM, Marco Moock wrote: On 22 Jun 2025 15:01 Robert Moskowitz wrote: What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? Did you change something at the kernel? All I was doing was inserting a USB drive, mounting via Xfce desktop option, using Thunar to copy

F421notebook stopped recognizing USB drives

2025-06-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz via users
I have been moving files between systems via USB drives. It had been going along well, when my system stopped recognizing that I plugged a drive in. ls /dev is not showing anything other than my SSD drive of sda What may be wrong?  How might I troubleshoot this without rebooting? thanks

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-21 Thread Ed Greshko
On 22/11/2021 11:47, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/19/21 14:47, linux guy wrote: Aside An interesting thing happened when I installed F35 on the USB SSD drive using the Live USB drive :  it chose a plain old file system instead of LVM. $ df -h Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/19/21 14:47, linux guy wrote: Aside An interesting thing happened when I installed F35 on the USB SSD drive using the Live USB drive :  it chose a plain old file system instead of LVM. $ df -h Filesystem  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3   465G  4.7G  459G   1% / /dev/

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 30886 MB in 2.00 seconds = 15463.41 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 1046 MB in 3.01 seconds = 348.01 MB/sec ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
Update. The USB flash drive I chose (Kingston Data Traveler Exodia, 256GB) was horrendously slow. How slow ? I did the install on an old machine. It took forever. Like an hour. I thought it was the machine, even though it has a USB 3.1 port. This morning I moved to a faster machine and atte

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 12:04, linux guy wrote: > Thanks for all the advice. > > How does one use a discarded NVME SSD drive ? If it is SATA, put it in an > external enclosure ? > There are 3 common types of SSD drives, NVME and SATA NGFF (Next Gen Form Factor?) that use M.2 slots, and legacy (O

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, linux guy said: > The USB flash recovery OS is extremely slow compared to a Live OS. It is > slow even when I ssh into it and not run a window manager. Why ? What > can I change to make it faster ? IIRC the LiveOS image is run from a squashfs-compressed filesystem, which pr

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 11:34:37 -0700 linux guy wrote: > What > can I change to make it faster ? There are fantastic speed variations for different brand USB sticks. When I set up my 64GB stick, I got the Sandisk "Ultra Trek" specifically because reviews of USB sticks said it was the fastest USB 3 s

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
The USB flash recovery OS is extremely slow compared to a Live OS. It is slow even when I ssh into it and not run a window manager. Why ? What can I change to make it faster ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread linux guy
Thanks for all the advice. How does one use a discarded NVME SSD drive ? If it is SATA, put it in an external enclosure ? I installed F35 Workstation on a 256GB USB3 flash drive. It boots and works, but it is slower than the Live version. Why would that be ? Are there any special settings I

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread George N. White III
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 at 20:20, linux guy wrote: > From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that > involves booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. > Currently I have 2 computers that need such attention. > > In the past I've used Live

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
Your assumption is correct. My desktop PC is an HP EliteDesk G2 Mini with two USB drives (one HDD, one SSD) typically hanging off of it. Both external drives as well as the internal drive are bootable. Each drive has its own ESP. No problem booting one of the external drives on any of my

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Steven Usdansky via users
Nothing special about installing to a USB drive in my experience, other than ensuring it has its own bootable EFI system partition. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.o

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 17:53 -0700, linux guy wrote: > Thank you, Tom.   This is exactly why I ask the group questions like > this. It's good netiquette to quote the part of a message you are replying to, so people don't have to scroll back in a thread (which they may have already deleted) to see w

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-19 Thread ja
On Thu, 2021-11-18 at 19:59 -0700, linux guy wrote: > Your comment spurred me to use a 256GB USB flash drive instead of the WD > spinning drive.  256 GB is > large enough to do a couple system installs and multi boot them as well as a > bit of data backup.    If I > need more data backup than 256

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
Your comment spurred me to use a 256GB USB flash drive instead of the WD spinning drive. 256 GB is large enough to do a couple system installs and multi boot them as well as a bit of data backup.If I need more data backup than 256 GB provides, I can mount a spinning drive or even a network dri

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
Thank you, Tom. This is exactly why I ask the group questions like this. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread Tom Horsley
I've done a "normal" install of fedora on a 64GB USB 3 sandisk stick and it worked fine, so I imagine a bigger drive would work also (but I can carry around the stick on my keychain :-). I set the mount options to include noatime so it wouldn't do so much I/O to the usb stick, but that wasn't neces

Re: Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
I'm thinking of using a Western Digital 2TB USB3.2 with a Type A connector. I assume that I can partition and format it to work as a bootable OS ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.f

Building a USB maintenance drive instead of using Live USB drives ?

2021-11-18 Thread linux guy
>From time to time I need to do maintenance on Linux computers that involves booting an OS other than the one installed on the machine. Currently I have 2 computers that need such attention. In the past I've used Live bootable USB drives. They have a number of limitations including: -

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 7/4/19 4:33 AM, wwp wrote: Hello, On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:42:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB > drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the dr

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-04 Thread wwp
Hello, On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:42:31 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > > Folks, > >  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB > > > drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the dri

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 18:25 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Device Boot StartEndSectors Size Id Type > /dev/sdc1 * 2048 3907029166 3907027119 1.8T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Don't forget that when you use partitioning tools to look at a drive, they look at the flags on the partitions

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/3/19 6:25 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I managed to figure that out after I sent the email.  What confused me was that for 1 and 2 TB drives fdisk -l says the drives are: Device Boot Start    End    Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1  * 2048 3907029166 3907027119  1.8T  7 HPFS/NTFS/e

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/3/19 6:25 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: I managed to figure that out after I sent the email.  What confused me was that for 1 and 2 TB drives fdisk -l says the drives are: Device Boot Start    End    Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1  * 2048 3907029166 3907027119  1.8T  7 HPFS/NTFS/e

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
:-) Paolo On 7/3/19 3:42 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,   I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote:  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are

Re: external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 7/3/19 1:50 PM, Paolo Galtieri wrote: Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs

external USB drives

2019-07-03 Thread Paolo Galtieri
Folks,  I recently purchased a 4TB external USB drive.  I have purchased USB drives in the past and have run dosfslabel to set the drive label.  When I tried this on F29 I get the following: dosfslabel /dev/sdc2 NEW_LABEL Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 0. I have 2 8TB drives

Re: Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread Fred Smith
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 01:15:59PM -0400, William Oliver wrote: > > I've been reading the thread about backing up hard drives with > interest.  I have a similar question.  > > I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive that I've been doing backups on. >  Unfortunately, it's starting to get a little fl

Re: Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
, but it's also possible that the two drives are on the same USB controller/hub. Plug the drives in and do an "lsusb -v" and verify that they're on separate USB hubs. It's important that they be on separate hubs to prevent contention issues. USB drives will be slower on w

Related to the drive copy question -- what about USB drives?

2018-09-07 Thread William Oliver
I've been reading the thread about backing up hard drives with interest.  I have a similar question.  I have a 4 TB external USB hard drive that I've been doing backups on.  Unfortunately, it's starting to get a little flaky -- not being recognized by my laptop, etc.  The problem got better when

Re: F24 not recognizing USB drives

2017-04-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I will tag this message for in case it happens again. thanks On 04/04/2017 07:17 AM, Rami Rosen wrote: Hi, Robert, Do you see any errors related to USB or /dev/sdb when running tail -n 1000 /var/log/messages ? if you do - can you post them here please ? One option I would consider to try is

Re: F24 not recognizing USB drives

2017-04-04 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Robert, Do you see any errors related to USB or /dev/sdb when running tail -n 1000 /var/log/messages ? if you do - can you post them here please ? One option I would consider to try is (assuming your main hard disk is *not* a USB device but ordinary SATA ) to rmmod and modprobe the USB disk

Fixed - Re: F24 not recognizing USB drives

2017-04-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mine is not to reason why Since the last external device I had working was my Samsung Galaxy 4S, I plugged it in. It was recognized. I unmounted it, and then plugged in a USB drive and it was recognized as /dev/sdb. So back in business. With some questions, but if it is working...

F24 not recognizing USB drives

2017-04-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Bunch of suspend/resumes since the last boot. Back home and went to put in a USB drive, and nothing. No /dev/sdb listed. Nothing showing on the desktop as a mountable drive. How would I trouble shoot this? Really don't want to reboot. thanks ___ u

Re: best way to build bootable f23 USB drives from f23?

2015-11-12 Thread Tod Merley
course.ca> wrote: > > >> for an upcoming class, i want to create bootable 64-bit fedora 23 >> systems on (probably) 16G USB drives. given that i want to do this >> from a running fedora 23 system, and it can be a totally destructive >> creation, what's the best

Re: best way to build bootable f23 USB drives from f23?

2015-11-12 Thread Martin Bříza
On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 12:36:28 +0100, Robert P. J. Day wrote: for an upcoming class, i want to create bootable 64-bit fedora 23 systems on (probably) 16G USB drives. given that i want to do this from a running fedora 23 system, and it can be a totally destructive creation, what's the

best way to build bootable f23 USB drives from f23?

2015-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for an upcoming class, i want to create bootable 64-bit fedora 23 systems on (probably) 16G USB drives. given that i want to do this from a running fedora 23 system, and it can be a totally destructive creation, what's the best way? as i see it, i would probably do a single, initial in

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/15/2013 03:47 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-15 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 15.04.2013, Paul Erickson wrote: > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think > for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access > them, I get an error message stating

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi In case it will not solve the problem,can you please send the output of dmesg after you get the error you mentioned? Regards Rami Rosen On Apr 15, 2013 1:51 AM, "Paul Erickson" wrote: > On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: >> >>> I have a coup

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
On 04/14/2013 03:21 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to acc

Re: F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 04/15/13 05:33, Paul Erickson wrote: > I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think > for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug > in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access > them, I get an error message sta

F 18 problem accessing external usb drives with XFS

2013-04-14 Thread Paul Erickson
I have a couple of external disks that I formatted in XFS using F11, I think for data backup. Now with a new F 18 installation, when I plug in the drive, the disk icons appear on the desktop, but when I try to access them, I get an error message stating that the contents cannot be displayed due

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 26 March 2013, Joe Zeff sent: > If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that > the various snoopy government agencies can't easily read, without > going to the bother of encrypting it, especially as some of them claim > the right to demand encryption ke

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 13:55 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > > You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a > > different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable > > under other OSes though. > > If such things matter,

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/26/2013 01:32 PM, Chris Adams wrote: You can either split up your file or format the flash drive with a different filesystem. If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable under other OSes though. If such things matter, you can do this to create a flash drive that the various snoopy g

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:32:19 -0500 Chris Adams wrote: > If you reformat it, it probably won't be usable > under other OSes though. I've got mine formatted with NTFS which seems to work OK on most systems and also supports big files. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013, Aaron Konstam wrote: I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB drive, Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else? USB Drive are typcially Formatted as FAT32 an

Re: Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Aaron Konstam said: > I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig > file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB > drive, > > Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else? Your drive is most likely formatted with t

Limit of file siae on USB drives?

2013-03-26 Thread Aaron Konstam
I have a cruser *gig usb drive on which I am tring to copy a 4.9 gig file. The copy craps out somewhere afte copying 4.3 gis on to the USB drive, Is that some kind of hardware size limit or something else? -- === You can observe

Re:(FEEDBACK) Fedora 18 not mounting USB drives.

2013-01-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
*** On 17/01/2013 10:24, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hello, 2013/1/16 Johan Scheepers > Good day, When I boot and login I get a udisks have a problem. Kindly please : how to fix this. First of all please let us know the exact text of t

Re: Fedora 18 not mounting USB drives.

2013-01-17 Thread Johan Scheepers
On 17/01/2013 10:24, Jorge Martínez López wrote: Hello, 2013/1/16 Johan Scheepers > Good day, When I boot and login I get a udisks have a problem. Kindly please : how to fix this. First of all please let us know the exact text of the message you g

Re: Fedora 18 not mounting USB drives.

2013-01-17 Thread Jorge Martínez López
Hello, 2013/1/16 Johan Scheepers > Good day, > > When I boot and login I get a udisks have a problem. > Kindly please : how to fix this. > > First of all please let us know the exact text of the message you get. The last lines of /var/log/messages right after inserting the USB disk also help.

Fedora 18 not mounting USB drives.

2013-01-16 Thread Johan Scheepers
Good day, When I boot and login I get a udisks have a problem. Kindly please : how to fix this. JohanS -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wi

Auto mounting NTFS formatted USB drives

2011-06-08 Thread S B
I was wondering if someone could provide me with some pointers on fixing a rather odd problem I am having. I updated from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 -- clean install but carried over my home directory. USB drives formatted as FAT32, ext3 automount fine under GNOME but NTFS formatted drives don'

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread R. G. Newbury
>> > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >>> >> Hi All, >>> >> >>> >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for >>> >> backup >>> >> from my main file server. ?Most of the ones I see around seem to say >>> >> that >>> >> they want Wondiws somethi

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread L
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup >> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that >> they wan

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-14 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: >> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup >> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that >> they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful?  Should I >> just be

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 16:46 +, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup > from my main file server. Most of the ones I see around seem to say that > they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful? Should I >

Re: External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Paolo Galtieri
I have a Seagate 1.5Tb drive and it works just fine with Linux. I use it to back up my Windows 7 system (when I boot up in Windows 7) and my Linux when I boot up in Linux (Fedora 12). Paolo On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) ext

External USB Drives

2010-01-13 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi All, I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup from my main file server. Most of the ones I see around seem to say that they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful? Should I just be able to plug it in and use it? Do I need to partition and fo