On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Miller,Jason [Burlington] <J.Miller at ec.gc.ca> wrote: > Hello, new Linux user here and I cannot mount a new (empty) WD MyBook > Essentials 3TB USB external hard drive (Model WDBACW0030HBK-NESN). > lots of details which will help, but I think it'd be good to add what end game you want to get to. e.g. just want to use this drive under linux, want to use it under linux and NT both, etc. I have a similar setup with a 3tb usb3 and centos6. I ended up reformatting the disk to have a 200g (I think?) partition formatted to fat32 and the reset as a ext3 partition for linux use. I'd have to do some verification to be sure it all works nicely (since I put it on my linux machine, I've had no use to pull it back off), but I can add all the files I'd like to either partition on linux and access the fat 32 from various windows hosts. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good.