I recall reformatting the Seagate not long after purchasing. Got lazy with the WD, but will at some time do this (carefully!). Given the cost of disks today, if I value my time, I'll probably just buy a new one and format it right away then copy. Best, JN On 2019-01-07 9:59 a.m., Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 09:54:13 -0500 > J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > >> The "mount" information says Seagate is ext4, but fdisk thinks its >> dos. Controller circuitry in the disks for the USB perhaps? > > No, it's not a hardware issue. "fdisk" reports partition types and those > are just hints. I don't believe Linux actually cares about the partition > type; you can have a DOS partition type formatted as an ext4 file system > and Linux will be perfectly happy to mount it as ext4. > > However, take a look at this mount output: > >> /dev/sdf1 on /media/john/RedWD3T type fuseblk > > fuseblk is a user-space file system driver used to mount NTFS or other > filesystems. Being user-space, it's going to be really, really slow. > > If you can do so without losing data, I'd repartition and reformat the WD > disk to be a native ext4 file system. > > Regards, > > Dianne. > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org