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I'm quite new to Ubuntu or Linux world. I spent few weeks struggling to find a way to access my media files over the internet.

After trying many systems which all failed to work, I managed to set a NetCloud/Snap server in my Odroid XU4 and successfully connect to the server using Kodi devices.

My problem is that I have 5TiB+ of media sitting on an NTFS external HD which I was using with JRiver Media Centre. My media files are split in few folders according to their nature, ie. DTS, DSD, ALAC, Blu-ray, Video.

I tried to connect my hard drive and to automatically mount it, but Ubuntu doesn't like it as it is larger than 2TiB.

My questions are:

1. Can I add my HD without needing to format it?


2. If yes, can I also share it with a Windows machine that I use to add more media on the drive?


3. Also, can I mount each folder individually or I can only mount the HD as a whole?

I am kindly asking you to be patient with me and try to accompany me step by step if there are solutions to my problems.

There is no /var/log/messages file that I can show.
Here is the part of the syslog showing the problem:

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.634596] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953506645 4096-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.28 TiB)

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.634602] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 16384-byte physical blocks

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.646951] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.646958] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 4f 00 00 00

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.647191] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.677810]  sda: sda1

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3302.679384] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid systemd[1]: Mounting /media/samsung...

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3303.015676] ntfs: (device sda1): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Volume size (7TiB) is too large for this architecture.  Maximum supported is 2TiB.  Sorry.

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3303.027704] ntfs: (device sda1): ntfs_fill_super(): Unsupported NTFS filesystem.

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid mount[5464]: mount: /media/samsung: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid systemd[1]: media-samsung.mount: Mount process exited, code=exited status=32

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid systemd[1]: media-samsung.mount: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid systemd[1]: Failed to mount /media/samsung.

As this is not a PC/server, and you are using Odroid, you can see a message:

Dec 31 08:43:48 odroid kernel: [ 3303.015676] ntfs: (device sda1): parse_ntfs_boot_sector(): Volume size (7TiB) is too large for this architecture.  Maximum supported is 2TiB.  Sorry.

Which says that for this CPU architecture (ARM) the size of the disk is too big to support for the CPU and it's operating system.

While this disk will work on any modern PC/server, the ARM architecture and provided operating systems will not accept such size of the disk.

That's all I can tell from the provided syslog.

Answering your questions:

It is possible that formatting the disk for partitions less than 2TiB each and then trying to mount them could be possible there is no such guarantee. Please always backup your data first!

It is possible to share mounted volumes with Windows - via Samba or FTP.

You are always allowed to mount each partition at one folder in Linux distributions. Whole disk cannot be mounted if it is partitioned (pendrives differ about their format).

EDIT:

As from comments, user needed to install ntfs-3g packet to support NTFS filesystems on this board.