[CentOS] Cannot mount 3TB MyBook USB HD
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Mar 8 22:17:36 UTC 2013
On 3/8/2013 2:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Make
> sure the partition type is GPT. I don't believe FAT or FAT-32 can handle a
> drive this big.
GPT is actually the LABEL type for the whole disk, and not the partition
type.
iirc, fat16 has a 2GB max due to inherent limitations, and FAT32/VFAT
starts to get sketchy somewhere north of 128GB, but tthe absolute max
size is 2TB with standard sector sizes. FAT32 also has a max single
file size of 4GB
anyways, for sharing data between windows and unix systems, I highly
recommend this thing called 'networking'. put the disk on a server or
NAS and share it with SMB (for windows clients) and/or NFS (for
unix/linux clients).
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john r pierce 37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast
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