[SOLVED] Which file system for usb drive?

[TheOldPresbyope]

@jmgtierrez

If you don't see anything in step 2, then check /var/log/syslog

Buried in this log you should see a collection of lines which look something like

Code:

May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.010787] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using dwc_otg
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.221714] usb 1-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=25e1, bcdDevice=10.15
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.221730] usb 1-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.221740] usb 1-1.3: Product: My Passport 25E1
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.221749] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: Western Digital
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.221758] usb 1-1.3: SerialNumber: 575833314131373354543439
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.222582] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.229633] scsi host0: usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 5: "/sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3"
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 5 was not an MTP device
May 28 12:27:08 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2657.272809] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
May 28 12:27:09 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2658.231419] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       My Passport 25E1 1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
May 28 12:27:09 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2658.237734] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
May 28 12:27:09 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2658.239252] scsi 0:0:0:1: Enclosure         WD       SES Device       1015 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
May 28 12:27:09 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2658.252634] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
May 28 12:27:09 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2658.252852] scsi 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 13
May 28 12:27:13 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2659.272226] ...
May 28 12:27:13 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2662.230863] Voltage normalised (0x00080008)
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2662.390841] ..ready
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.431161] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953458176 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.431376] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.431382] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.431584] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.431589] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.529538]  sda: sda1
May 28 12:27:14 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2663.531543] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
May 28 12:27:15 moodeT52 kernel: [ 2664.008643] fuse init (API version 7.27)
May 28 12:27:15 moodeT52 systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
May 28 12:27:15 moodeT52 systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
May 28 12:27:16 moodeT52 ntfs-3g[4931]: Version 2016.2.22AR.1 integrated FUSE 28
May 28 12:27:16 moodeT52 ntfs-3g[4931]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "My Passport", NTFS 3.1)
May 28 12:27:16 moodeT52 ntfs-3g[4931]: Cmdline options: rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=0,gid=0,dmask=0077,fmask=0177,dmask=0022,fmask=0022,uhelper=udisks
May 28 12:27:16 moodeT52 ntfs-3g[4931]: Mount options: rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec,nodiratime,uhelper=udisks,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,default_permissions,fsname=/dev/sda1,blkdev,blksize=4096
May 28 12:27:16 moodeT52 ntfs-3g[4931]: Global ownership and permissions enforced, configuration type 7

And another thought. Is your system adequately powered?

Regards,
Kent