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Questions tagged [exfat]

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Why can't I copy all files in a directory to a USB storage device?

The sdc1 was mounted on /media/debian/Ventoy. debian@debian:~$ sudo blkid | grep Ventoy /dev/sdc1: LABEL="Ventoy" UUID="F82D-76BE" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="exfat" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="1af31d46-01" debian@debian:~$ df …
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How can I make my ExFAT partition unmount cleanly?

I've got Raspbian running on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. I have a USB hard disk that I'm using with it. The hard disk is a 1TB drive formatted with a single partition using ExFAT. I've got exfat-fuse and exfat-utils installed. The problem is that every…
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Mounting exfat with udev rules automatically

I'm trying to mount various SD cards automatically with udev rules. I started with these rules, solved a problem with the help of this question, and now I have the following situation: ext4 and vfat formatted devices work perfectly, but when I plug…
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How to detect NTFS/exFAT file system type from script

User has a (incremental) backup script using rsync, to external device. This was erroring on an SSD he had. Turns out his device was formatted exFAT. That means I need to detect this in the script, as I need to alter the options to rsync (e.g.,…
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ExFat mount permission

I am trying to mount an exfat drive using fstab with read/write permission for both user and group. The line of etc/fstab for this drive is: UUID=5E98-37EA /home/ftagliacarne/data/media exfat defaults,rw,uid=1000,gid=1001,umask=002 0 1 Using these…
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Can't Mount exFat partition with Linux (exFat is installed)

I am running Linux on an external SSD. I am trying to mount an exFat partition which is on the internal hard drive. ( MS Windows is installed on an NTFS partition on the internal drive. ) exFat is already installed ( sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse…
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Copy a file > 4GB to exfat fails with 'Error closing file: No space left on device'

I have a 64GB flash drive plugged into a router. The router exposes the drive as a Windows share using Samba. The drive is formatted as exFAT and mounted successfully at /mnt/routerusb: mount.cifs //10.0.3.138/bezeq /mnt/routerusb -n -o…
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Change file creation timestamp on an exFAT volume from Linux

The question As of today, Unix standards don't support a file "creation time" attribute. However, many filesystems, like ext4, exFAT and NTFS, internally do save a creation time for their files. Note: I'm talking about creation time (aka crtime,…
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Mounting exFAT drive on Fedora 35 requires specifying device

I am running Fedora 35 and am trying to mount an exFAT drive, specifically an SD memory card for my digital camera. The computer identifies the card reader as device /dev/sde1 and I am trying to use /lacie2 as the mount point. This works correctly:…
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Is there a defragmentation utility for ExFAT available in GNU/Linux world?

I came across a SSD which have a very significant performance drop (about 20 times). As there is an ExFAT filesystem used, I suspect it might be due to fragmentation. Is there a tool available in the open source / free software world (= permissive…
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Tool to shrink exFAT filesystem offline for Linux

As of 2021, is there a tool to shrink exFAT filesystem offline for Linux ? I tested with gparted v1.3.1 but gparted does not support exfat resizing.
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What fs-type should I use in parted when creating an exFAT partition?

When I try to create a partition with parted and a filesystem type of 'exFAT', I encounter the following error: parted: invalid token: exFAT What fs-type should I use when creating a partition destined for an exFAT filesystem? Thanks!
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SD Card Recovery without data loss or corruption

I have a 128 GB Micro SD Card that I formatted as ext4 and used in a Chromebook for an Ubuntu Chroot Environment. I used it for quite some time that way. At some point, I either deleted everything off of it or formatted it using the Chromebook's…
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Mac OS cannot mount exFAT disk created on (Ubuntu) linux

I formatted an external hard disk on my ubuntu linux system with exfat. First I installed the exfat utilities: sudo apt-get install parted exfat-utils Then I partitioned the disk with a mbr boot record and one primary partition using…
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What are the detriments of not setting MSFTDATA flag when making a exFAT partition?

I have several external HDDs that I backup data to and occasionally plugin internally when I need access to the data. I erased all partitions by making a new GPT partition table on the disk. I made a primary partition of type NTFS and then formatted…
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