The original post: /r/debian by /u/freelsjd on 2024-11-13 02:46:53.

Hello fellow debian/linux users. I recently purchased a 12TB external usb drive at Walmart to connect to my debian desktop for local backups. I plug in the usb-3 port, and it is recognized, but seems to lock up at the “spinning up the disk” message, and after several minutes is fails. It does this several times, and then finally says it is a 10.9TB drive. I know it comes preformatted as exFAT which should be recognized. If I enter into fdisk on the recognized device, nothing happens beyond the start-up screen. In fact, it basically hangs the system at this point, and I have to reboot to get out of it.

I am wondering if I have a bad drive, or if there is some type of upper limit on the disk size for the linux drivers. I have an older seagate 4TB external usb drive that works fine. I want to expand. In fact, the name of the product is “expansion”.