Hello everyone!
I needed to transfer 1TB (SATA; MBR; EXFAT) drive to a 2TB drive (SATA; GPT; EXFAT). I connected both via USB 2.0 to my laptop running Debian Wheezy. ETA: few days.
I decided I will speed things up by building a Debian 8.1 box and hooking up both drives with SATA instead of USB 2.0.
I installed the drives. Installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. Mounting the 1TB drive was a breeze.
But then mounting the 2TB proved to be a two day failing endevour:
Code:
root@vox:/home/o# sfdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 121601 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0+ 121601- 121601- 976759808 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/sdc: 243201 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
sfdisk: Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/256/63 (instead of 243201/255/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units: cylinders of 8257536 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 0+ 266305- 266306- 2147483647+ ee GPT
/dev/sdc2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Disk /dev/sdb: 30401 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
sfdisk: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0+ 29442- 29443- 236495872 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 29442+ 30401- 959- 7700481 5 Extended
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb5 29442+ 30401- 959- 7700480 82 Linux swap / Solaris
http://s11.postimg.org/y8w7i1rv7/Scr...3_22_37_15.png
Code:
root@vox:/home/o# mount -t exfat /dev/sdc1 /home/o/2tb/
FUSE exfat 1.1.0
ERROR: failed to open '/dev/sdc1': No such file or directory.
Just to be sure I tried:
Code:
root@vox:/home/o# mount -t exfat /dev/sdc2 /home/o/2tb/
FUSE exfat 1.1.0
ERROR: failed to open '/dev/sdc2': No such file or directory.
root@vox:/home/o# mount -t exfat /dev/sdc3 /home/o/2tb/
FUSE exfat 1.1.0
ERROR: failed to open '/dev/sdc3': No such file or directory.
root@vox:/home/o# mount -t exfat /dev/sdc4 /home/o/2tb/
FUSE exfat 1.1.0
ERROR: failed to open '/dev/sdc4': No such file or directory.
What's going on?
To be sure, I disconnect the drive and put it back into the usb enclosure and connect it back to my laptop: Voila! It even automounts!
Code:
root@laptop:# sfdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb'! The util sfdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdb: 243201 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/256/63 (instead of 243201/255/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8257536 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 0+ 266305- 266306- 2147483647+ ee GPT
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
here is the output from GParted on my laptop:
http://s17.postimg.org/s0nkae3pr/Scr...3_22_27_26.png
Hard drive mounting woes
