cannot use 2TB external USB drive ...

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:19 PM, George Sanders <gosand1982 at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> I bought a western digital 2TB USB external drive - shows up in dmesg as:
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> da2: 1907729MB (3907029168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 243201C)
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> Originally I tried to simply use it right off as a FAT32 device.  However,
> this crashed my system after generating thousands of:
>
[...]

> So finally, I gave up and since the end user of this system CANNOT use ufs2
> (which is what I would prefer anyway) I installed the ext2 tools and made an
> ext2 volume:


Urm... I'm pretty sure that neither ext2 nor FAT32 can make a 2T
filesystem.  It's a limitation of the format.  NTFS might work fine (use the
fuse version) or ext3 might work (I'm fuzzy on that point).

The other obvious choice would be to make partitions less than 1T.