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Questions tagged [fat32]

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Why is the "ls" command showing permissions of files in a FAT32 partition?

I believe that the FAT32 file system does not support file permissions, however when I do ls -l on a FAT32 partition, ls -l shows that the files have permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 11 Mar 20 15:43 file1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 john john 5 Mar 20 15:49…
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Contiguous copy – How do I copy files contiguously?

I want to copy a number of files onto a flash drive such that each individual file is contiguous. They do not need to be contiguous with each other, and can be in any order. The files will be very large – hundreds of megabytes, to gigabytes. No…
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How can I safely recover deleted data from a USB flash drive?

This event actually took place a few years ago, but I still have the unchanged USB flash drive in my possession. I may be out of luck, but I thought I would ask all you smart people here for your suggestions. Short Story: A few years back, my wife…
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vfat not recognized in debian

I want to mount my usb drive (kindle vfat32). When I do mount -t auto /dev/sdf1 /mnt/usb I get mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat' I checked if the drive is recognized with sudo fdisk -l and the recognized filesystem is W95 FAT32 my kernel is…
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Gparted gives problems with Fat32

It seems GParted is giving problems with FAT32 partitions. I am using the latest Gparted Live Disk from their site. But whenever I try to resize my EFI system Partition which is formatted using Fat32, I get the error-: "GNU Parted cannot resize…
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How to deal with characters like ":" or "?" that make invalid filenames?

I just tried to move a directory containing music files with thunar 4.10 It complained that a file name was invalid. It turned out that one file name (song title) contained a question mark. I suspected that this was a problem, removed the question…
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What filesystem should be used when transferring files between Linux systems?

I often need to move files between two Linux computers via USB. I use gparted to format the USB's. When I formatted the USB to use FAT32, the USB was unable to copy symlinks, so I had to recreate the symlinks on the other computer after copying the…
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Does Rsnapshot work on Fat32 filesystem?

Does Rsnapshot work on the Fat32 filesystem? I get the impression from Rsnapshots homepage that it does, but then I read here that it doesn't. So I'm not sure what to think.
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Cannot format my EFI partition (FAT32)

When formatting my EFI partition I get this error: Not enough clusters for a 32 bit FAT!" My disk use 4096 sector size. #mkfs.fat -v -F 32 -S 4096 /dev/sde1 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) WARNING: Not enough clusters for a 32 bit FAT! /dev/sde1 has…
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Can I install GNU/Linux on a FAT drive?

Out of curiosity, is this possible nowadays? I remember some old Slackware versions did support FAT root partition but I am not sure if this is possible with modern kernels and if there are any distros offering such an option. I am interested in…
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Copying Linux NFS files to a standard consumer external hard drive

I am a graduate student and a relative Linux novice. My institution has an in-house Linux cluster on which I run many scientific simulations. I have a Windows desktop computer from which I access the Linux cluster via SSH. I have a large amount…
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Usb flash drive (no media) - how to format?

I'm using Kali Linux x64 2017. When I insert USB flash drive (16 GB) computer can't recognize it. I want to format it and erase all data. I've already tried on Windows and the problem is same (usb flash drive is not recognized). I suppose the…
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openSUSE Live USB with windows-accessible FAT32 partition

I have a 64gb flash drive. I want to set it up so I can use it for windows-accessible Fat32 data storage while also being able to boot to it using a large (20-30gb) persistent openSUSE live USB installation. Does anybody know how I can go about…
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How to format a microSDXC card into Fat32?

I need to format a brand new Micro SD card of extended capacity into FAT32. I've read that formatting SD cards of 64/128 GB requires special tools. How can I format in my Linux machine an SD card of 64/128 GB? I've formatted a 16GB USB stick with…
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Error: "failed to preserve ownership" when trying to move files to a FAT32 partition on OpenBSD

I'm following a tutorial on how to install firmware on OpenBSD. The tutorial has me creating a new msdos file system on the usb with: newfs_msdos -F 32 /dev/rsd2c then to take usb to a system with an internet connection, then move the firmware…
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