use parted with parted /dev/sdX Most disks on x86/amd64 are prepared using an msdos label, thus supporting partitions up to 2T in size. To create larger partitions (2 TB and more), one must use a gpt label (the GUID Partition Type). With parted, this can be accomplished with mklabel gpt: (parted) help (parted) print (parted) […]

Most likely the number of file descriptors not enough. Check for number of file descriptors with ulimit -a ulimit -n Increase in /etc/security/limits.conf username hard nofile 3072 username soft nofile 2048 Another things to do, if above solution doesn’t help. As suggested at slashdot, increase number of max open connections in sysctl.conf, kernel headers and […]

After updating KDE to 4.9.5 my system stopped auto mounting external USB devices. The fix was to change udisk policy in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy <action id=”org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount”> <description>Mount a device</description> <message>Authentication is required to mount the device</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action>