i_am_hiding

@i_am_hiding@aussie.zone

I jumped off Reddit’s cliff and landed here just like many other Lemmings.

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i_am_hiding,

What about FreeTube? Revanced? Grayjay? You don’t need to host it yourself!

i_am_hiding,

I drive a cool, classic car most of the time.

It attracts a lot of 60 year old blokes with names like “Terry” and “Ian” every time I pull up to a stop.

I haven’t seen a girl so much as look sideways at it.

i_am_hiding,

Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. The operation has failed.

As the de-facto IT admin in a small business, this message haunts my dreams and I hate that I know it by heart. Time to make a new mail profile and configure all the accounts again. Its not like it’s the seventh time on this computer. It’s not like I’ve reinstalled Outlook three times already as per Microsoft’s “accepted solution”.

There’s a reason I don’t use Microsoft software on my hardware.

i_am_hiding,

Thunderbird is great for me. I’ve used it for near on twenty years, and it flies compared to Outlook, especially for searching.

i_am_hiding,

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i_am_hiding,

…

Maybe …

i_am_hiding,

Wolfram is a lot cheaper. One time payment of like 5 bucks and it’s been on my phone for years.

i_am_hiding,

Symbolab was free up to about four or five years ago, but good things never last.

i_am_hiding,

No - I’ve been working on a headless server, and ideally I need this thing to be written into /etc/fstab and work reliably from the command line. I could plug the drive into my laptop to have a look in some GUI tools if you think there’s one around that can circumvent the sector size mismatch, but in the end I’ll need a CLI method.

i_am_hiding,

Yes, the last code block in my OP shows the result of attempting to mount /dev/sdc1 normally: mount: /mnt: special device /dev/sdc1 does not exist.

Though I do not believe it is required as I can mount other drives to /mnt just fine, I have attempted to make /met/tmp and mount there to no avail.

i_am_hiding,

I’m not using Windows. I run Debian on this server.

The bulk of external enclosures that money can buy tell the computer they’re plugged into that the disks have logical sector sizes of 4096 bytes, apparently for compatibility with >2TB drives on Windows XP.

I do not need compatibility with Windows XP as the current year is 2024. My disk has logical sectors 512 bytes in size, but the external enclosures don’t report that. I want to know how I can mount the disk anyway, despite the enclosure’s attempts to thwart me. I know the disk is fine, as it is detected with 512 byte sectors and mounts happily via SATA.

i_am_hiding,

The only enclosure I have that works out of the box is one of those “SATA to USB adaptors” rather than a bona fide “3.5 inch drive enclosure”. It’s not ideal for long-term use.

I wonder if there’s a place to find out if any given make/model of enclosure will report the sector size as 512 bytes. Then, presumably, one could purchase an enclosure off that list and be confident the disk will be readable.

i_am_hiding,

I suspect this is what I’ll have to do. I was hoping to avoid it as that’ll take a weekend of copying, but I might just have to bite the bullet.

i_am_hiding,

I’ll pass

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