On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 08:58:21AM -0500, CAREY SCHUG via talk wrote:
I bought a 4 gb usb (spinning) disk.
I am going to assume that is a typo and you mean 4TB. I know I have messed that up many times.
it mounts fine on winblows 10
on ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS crickets.
I kind of think I have used other (smaller) exfat usb disks with no problems.
i went through several sets of instructions for installing exfat support, none did anything.
gparted shows it as all unallocated.
does that mean it has a different partiton table format? can I add that to ubuntu, or should I just allocate and format with gparted? (as what? seeking an answer for this)
Sometimes USB devices have no partitions and they just have a filesystem on the entire device. What does 'file /dev/sdc' (where sdc is whatever device it shows up as) say? If it shows it has a filesystem there, then it probably simply has no partitions and you mount the entire disk not a partition on the disk. Windows apparently isn't a fan of partitions on external USB drives, so often they don't have any, while others have just a single partition for the whole drive. -- Len Sorensen