A Word About 3TB HDDs

Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
i am tired.
you dont' folow instructions.

you cannot partitioned a device if it is mounted and if you don't know what label have.
i have told you many times to post output of commands.

now i will leave, remember to umount devices befre to partiotion them
umount /dev/sda1
umount /media/hdd

and so on depending form the putput of commands.
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
How should I type the command, I'm trying everything, although it's just returning a whole list off commands instead of the HDD space :/
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
there is nothing difficoult in type commands and report here but you prefer to make trying by yourself.
You can corrupt the devices in this way.

For the last time:

about hard disk:
boot your box without usb stick
telnet to your box and digit commands:
umount /media/hdd
umount /dev/sda1

use parted following the tutorial and using /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb
After the disk is partitioned and formatted reboot the box, goto device manager and map the hdd (after reboot)
at the end enter in telnet and digit command
df -h
and let us know if it is ok.


About usb:
boot you box WITHOUT usb stick
goto blue -> blue -> Usb Format Wizard.
follow instructions and plug the usb only when requested by the application.
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
Sorry Shiro, but I usually only use Windows GUI, although I'm getting to know my way around Parted now. I did accidently deleted the partition on the USB, although I reformatted it to EXT2 using the wizard as it's now recognized by BH.

I unmounted both the USB and HDD using the device manager in the extra settings. As far as I can tell the HDD is /dev/sda and the USB /dev/sdb

When I've used the 'print all' command and the HDD is listed as follows:

Model: ATA WDC WD30EZRX-00M <scsi>
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size <logical/physical>: 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

*** END ***


Now, because I can also see the USB which has disk flags, I'm guessing that I've now got to create disk flags for the HDD, and the fact it hasn't got any is the reason BH cannot see the HDD.
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
Ok infiltrator now you have to partiotioned and formatted.

Telnet to you box and digit these commands:
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umount /dev/sda

parted /dev/sda

mklabel gpt

unit TB

mkpart primary 0 0

quit

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1


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When mkfs will be complete you can reboot and after the rebbot you will find disk in device manager ready to be mapped.
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
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Shiro said:
Ok infiltrator now you have to partiotioned and formatted.

Telnet to you box and digit these commands:
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umount /dev/sda

parted /dev/sda

mklabel gpt

unit TB

mkpart primary 0 0

quit

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda


---------------------------------

When mkfs will be complete you can reboot and after the rebbot you will find disk in device manager ready to be mapped.
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Just went through it all and I'm getting the following message when using the mkfs command :

dev/sda is entire device, not just one partition!

Proceed anyway? (y,n)
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
Shiro said:
No sorry, it is my error

the correct command is:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
Click to expand...

Just executed the command and I've received the following message:


"File system to small for a journal
Writing superblocks and Filesystem accounting information: done"
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
Infiltrator said:
Just executed the command and I've received the following message:
"File system to small for a journal
Writing superblocks and Filesystem accounting information: done"
Click to expand...

Ok it seems that the partition is not created right dimension
digit these commands:

umount /dev/sda1

parted /dev/sda

rm 1

mkpart primary 0 -1

quit

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
Shiro said:
Ok it seems that the partition is not created right dimension
digit these commands:

umount /dev/sda1

parted /dev/sda

rm 1

mkpart primary 0 -1

quit

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
Click to expand...

Every time I try to create a partition with the mkpart command I'm always getting the following message:

"Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for the best performance .
Ignore/cancel?"
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
Infiltrator said:
Every time I try to create a partition with the mkpart command I'm always getting the following message:

"Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for the best performance .
Ignore/cancel?"
Click to expand...

ok use this comand:

mkpart primary ext4 1 -1
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
I think you can test later the best alignment. For now it is better to see if it works.

so:

mkpart primary ext4 1 -1

quit

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
Shiro said:
or you can try this tip:
Click to expand...

Cool, I'll have to try it. The good news is the HDD is recognized in BH as 3000.592GB Although because I've got no data on the HDD it doesn't give my the available in the 'BH Recorded Files' menu. I also get the following error message when trying to initialise the HDD within BH:

BH Message
Unable to initialise hard drive
Error: Creating partition failed


*** UPDATE ***


The HDD managed to Initialise, but still it's only showing up as 801112 MB free disc space :/
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
Infiltrator said:
Cool, I'll have to try it. The good news is the HDD is recognized in BH as 3000.592GB Although because I've got no data on the HDD it doesn't give my the available in the 'BH Recorded Files' menu. I also get the following error message when trying to initialise the HDD within BH:
BH Message
Unable to initialise hard drive
Error: Creating partition failed
*** UPDATE ***
The HDD managed to Initialise, but still it's only showing up as 801112 MB free disc space :/
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Again you have made the wrong thing and have not followed instructions.
If you use image inizialization you corrupt partition table.

I was clear to inizalize hdd you have to use command:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1



Now that you have use inizialization you have to delete partition and remake all again
 
Shiro

Shiro

BH-C
After you have formatterd the hdd with the command mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
you have to:

1 Reboot
2 goto device panel and map the hdd to /media/hdd
3 telnet to the box and use command:
mkdir /media/hdd/movie


All done.
 
Infiltrator

Infiltrator

Vu+ Newbie
Shiro said:
After you have formatterd the hdd with the command mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
you have to:

1 Reboot
2 goto device panel and map the hdd to /media/hdd
3 telnet to the box and use command:
mkdir /media/hdd/movie


All done.
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Many thanks Shiro, everything's all working fine now and BH recognizes the full 3TB are available space. It's been an experience and steep learning curve.

Again, thank you for your help and support as I'm sure I wouldn't been able to do this without your help.


Cheers Ian ;)
 
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