@PJPfeiffer
I do not mean to offend, and you will notice that the terminal punctuation is a question-mark - the title is supposed to read more like a “WTF?!! This thing DOESN’T support Linux filesystems?”
Obviously it is supposed to support them. If it routinely did not - what with what the documentation says - there would be a wailing and gnashing of teeth like you’ve never seen! And yes, I know my /dev from my /proc. 
No. I have not, and have no plans to - especially since this drive contains something like 3T of irreplaceable data! 
What I have done is to take a different USB drive of much smaller size, nuke it, and reformat it as ext4, ext3, ext2, and NTFS. I also took a thumb-drive (formatted as FAT32 I think), and tried it. Formatting for the ext partitions were done on a box running Linux Mint using mke2fs, and specifying the appropriate file-system. The NTFS format was done on my Win7 laptop. The only formats that were recognized were the non-Linux formats.
Huh? At least as far as /dev is concerned, the drive doesn’t even exist!
I have not been able to run that command as I have something like two-and-a-half days before I get shipped off to Europe (with this device in tow!), so I am doing all the copying I can by mounting it on my main server as an nfs mount. Once all that is done - if I have the time before I go - I will try that and report results. If not, I will try it when I get there and things settle down.
Oh. . . I just thought of something. . . .
Looking at the quote in Bennor’s post, I notice he’s having trouble with Toshiba drives, and pretty much all of the drives I’m using here are Toshiba branded drives. I think even the tiny drive is a Toshiba.
Could the brand of the drive be an issue?
Thanks for all the suggestions, I will try them when I get a chance.
Jim “JR”
Update:
While wandering around these fora, I ran across Bennor’s posts within the thread “This is completely unacceptable!”
Interesting!
There is a lot of data there. In my case I have absolutely no problem mounting NTFS volumes at all, however the commands and logs he shows are interesting and worth a look.
Thanks!
Jim “JR”
