[SOLVER ]1,5 terabyte external HD automount

erzapito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 136

Hi,

I have a problem with a 1,5 terabyte HD:

If I create a partition with 1000GB, Gnome and xfce4 would automount the drive withour problems.
If I create a partition with 1,5TB, neither Gnome nor xfce4 would automount, but I can automount it manually with root and access the data.
Gnome creates a link to an USB drive but says it doesn't exists.

¿Anyone knows where to start looking? I think it has something to do with udev links.

Thanks.

radagast · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject:

I've been watching this question since you asked... i don't have that problem yet, but i suspect i'm about to.
the closest discussion i could find is here - and the final answer is to enable large block devices in the kernel (CONFIG_LBD=y). but i don't think that's right. i don't even have CONFIG_LBD in my 2.6.25 kernel, and i think 'large' means over 2TB anyway.

so if you work it out, i'd like to know...

erzapito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 136

Thanks for the help, I tried that solution and it didn't do anything. Anyway, the LBD doesn't explains why I can mount it manually from the console.

erzapito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 136

Solved using last version of hal with the "disk-partition" use flag. The disk was partitioned with parted.