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OK, a couple of command outputs for you... humax# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name ... 8 0 782782932 sda 8 1 782781440 sda1 humax# fdisk -lu Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512) Disk /dev/sda: 801.5 GB, 801569722368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12181 cylinders, total...

I just came across this: http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showpost.php?s=91fa474a8877635435581bca5f3278de&p=892980&postcount=9 It might explain why it works ( I've got the same Seagate GoFlex drive) - I'll still try and run the command though to see what's actually going on.

Ok, not quite what I was hoping to hear... I'll run the check when I can next get to the box and report back. Worst case I'll revert to plan B and swap my 3tb and 2tb drives over.

I partitioned it using gparted (using Ubuntu). I'm not sure which format of partition able it used ... whichever is the default I suppose (I was going to look into that if it didn't work using the defaults). I could have a look at the settings in gparted to see what it's set to now -...

Well it seems to be happily recording so far :-) The media screen is showing 2768Mb free at the moment too so it looks like it's seeing it OK too. Weirdly the output of the mount command is showing it as an ext2 drive even though it's formatted as ext3 - doesn't seem to be causing any issues...

Hi, Sorry to drag up an old(ish) thread but rather than start a new one I thought it was worth mentioning that I've just done similar to splog above and now have a 3Tb external drive set up with my HD-Fox T2 which is successfully recording (and accessing old files copied to it from my previous...