I have a Western Digital usb drive that I use with Mac Book but Im moving to an other laptop with Manjaro 20 and for now Im working with Manjaro as Virtual Machine Through VMware and I cant mount the drive to Manjaro
Do I have to change the format of this drive?
I hope for some help
Thanks Josef
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at least we - and you - would have to know
what the file system is
that is on that WD disk
that you want to use and “mount to Manjaro”
If you so far only used it with a Mac Book
it’s not self evident that the file system on it is anything that is easily readable/usable from any Linux by default.
Yes, I know that it is Mac Extended format but I understand that Manjaro must recognize it. Yesterday I made an update of the WD utilities and now I can mount the Drive in Manjaro. I hope it continues like this.
Thanks
Here is the output to inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width:
System:
Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64
root=UUID=db29ea06-ccb4-421f-b6d2-0e8a6110137d ro quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.2 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
Type: Vmware System: VMware product: VMware Virtual Platform v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Intel model: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform serial: <filter>
BIOS: Phoenix v: 6.00 date: 07/22/2020
Memory:
RAM: total: 3.82 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (54.8%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: 2x Single Core model: Intel Core i5-7267U bits: 64 type: SMP
arch: Amber/Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: 9
microcode: N/A L2 cache: 8 MiB bogomips: 12388
Speed: 3096 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3096 2: 3096
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes apic arat arch_capabilities arch_perfmon
avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault
cx16 cx8 de f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr hypervisor ibpb ibrs
invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx movbe msr mtrr
nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pcid pclmulqdq pdpe1gb pge pni popcnt pse pse36
pti rdrand rdseed rdtscp sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
stibp syscall tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer tsc_reliable vme x2apic
xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.18.0.0 bus ID: 00:0f.0
chip ID: 15ad:0405 class ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: vmware unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.0x9.4")
s-diag: 449mm (17.7")
Monitor-1: Virtual1 res: 1440x900 hz: 60
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.1.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.4
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373 / Creative Labs CT2518 driver: snd_ens1371
v: kernel bus ID: 02:02.0 chip ID: 1274:1371 class ID: 0401
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI vendor: VMware Virtual Machine
type: network bridge driver: N/A modules: i2c_piix4 port: 1060
bus ID: 00:07.3 chip ID: 8086:7113 class ID: 0680
Device-2: Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: VMware PRO/1000 MT Single Port driver: e1000 v: kernel port: 2000
bus ID: 02:01.0 chip ID: 8086:100f class ID: 0200
IF: ens33 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: VMware Virtual Bluetooth Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus ID: 2-1:2 chip ID: 0e0f:0008 class ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Message: Required tool hciconfig not installed. Check --recommends
RAID:
Message: No RAID data was found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 50 GiB used: 30.9 GiB (61.8%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: VMware model: Virtual S size: 50 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: N/A rev: 1.0 scheme: MBR
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: NECVMWar model: VMware IDE CDR10 rev: 1.00
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 1 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes
rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw size: 50 GiB size: 48.96 GiB (97.93%) used: 30.9 GiB (63.1%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A
uuid: db29ea06-ccb4-421f-b6d2-0e8a6110137d
Swap:
Alert: No Swap data was found.
Unmounted:
Message: No Unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0001 class ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-1:2 info: VMware Virtual Bluetooth Adapter type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s chip ID: 0e0f:0008
class ID: e001 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 2-2:3 info: VMware Virtual USB Hub ports: 7 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 0e0f:0002 class ID: 0900
Hub-4: 3-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 class ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1:2 info: VMware Virtual Mouse type: Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 1 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 0e0f:0003 class ID: 0301
Hub-5: 3-3:3 info: VMware Virtual USB Hub ports: 7 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
chip ID: 0e0f:0002 class ID: 0900
Hub-6: 3-4:4 info: VMware Virtual USB Hub ports: 7 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
chip ID: 0e0f:0002 class ID: 0900
Hub-7: 4-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
chip ID: 1d6b:0003 class ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-0:0
info: Western Digital My Book Studio (WDBAAJ) My Book Studio LX (WDBACH)
type: N/A driver: N/A rev: N/A chip ID: 1058:1112
Sensors:
Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured?
Info:
Processes: 227 Uptime: 39m wakeups: 983 Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1622 pacman: 1608 lib: 436 flatpak: 5 snap: 9
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running in: konsole inxi: 3.3.01
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(as that makes both our lives much easier)
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No need to do anything right now as I’m an editor here on this site and have fixed it for you already. However, in the future I might not see your post so review my edits by pushing the orange pencil above the post I just fixed.
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The drive does not seem to be connected to the VMWare subsystem at all:
so it’s not a Manjaro issue, but a VMWare issue. Connect the drive on a VMWare level first and then repost the same output.
Sorry for the confusion, what happened is that Firefox is in the Hebrew language and so it wrote from left to right. I already changed it to English and I hope you see it well.
As for the WD drive, it was connected through VMware so the code sent was the result of that connection
Thanks.
Please contact VMWare support or read more VMWare docs if you don’t have support as the disk is not accessible by Manjaro and I double-checked::
Thank you very much but I don see the option to change the direction of the writing to left to right
Josef
FYI: that doesn’t seem to be an issue: I can read your posts just fine.
Finally I opted to format the whole drive to ext4 with gparted and now I can use it with Manjaro.
Thank you very much for your advice
Josef