[CentOS] Cannot mount 3TB MyBook USB HD

Fri Mar 8 22:08:20 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

zGreenfelder wrote:
> 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).
>>
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Several thoughts: first, you said gpartd had questions about it. *IS* it a
RAID (I don't know the device)? Esp. if not, I'd recreate the partition,
and... 3TB, use gparted *NOT* fdisk, which can only handle up to 2TB. Make
sure the partition type is GPT. I don't believe FAT or FAT-32 can handle a
drive this big.

     mark