Questions tagged [vfat]
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systemd keeps unmounting a removable drive
I have following line in /etc/fstab:
UUID=E0FD-F7F5 /mnt/zeno vfat noauto,utf8,user,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0113,dmask=0002 0 0
The partition is freshly created by gnome-disks under the respective user, and spans the whole card.
Now: Running…
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exFAT vs NTFS on Linux
Situation: I need a filesystem on thumbdrives that can be used across Windows and Linux.
Problem: By default, the common FS between Windows and Linux are just exFAT and NTFS (at least in the more updated kernels)
Question: In terms of performance on…
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What is a vfat signature?
Recently, I have noticed that I cannot access my USB flash drive filesystem (it was of FAT type, as far as I can remember). Fedora did not mount it automatically and lsblk could not see the partition. So, I decided to create new partition (instead…
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A clever way to defragment a FAT filesystem?
What is the best way to defragment a FAT filesystem when running Linux/Unix (on usb stick for instance)?
Copy all content elsewhere, format, copy back again?
Use FreeDOS defrag utility, in a KVM command?
Boot with Partition Logic?
other?
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Resize VFAT partition?
I'm migrating a machine to another boot drive with more space. I've done the following:
sudo partclone.vfat -c -R -o partclone.sda1.vfat.img -s /dev/sdg1
and then I created my partitions on the new device in parted, and then restored:
sudo…
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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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What is the best way to synchronize files to a VFAT partition?
POSIX filenames may contain all characters except /, but some filesystems reserve characters like ?<>\\:*|". Using pax, I can copy files while replacing these reserved characters:
$ pax -rw -s '/[?<>\\:*|\"]/_/gp' /source /target
But pax lacks an…
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How do I change automatic mounts of removable vfat / fat32 drives/partitions to use "noexec"?
When I plug in a USB drive it is automatically mounted on /run/media/user/fslabel. This is done, I guess by some udev/dbus/thunar/nautilus/gvfs or other system, and I find this convenient and do not want to revert to manual mounting by root. …
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How to create file links on a vfat filesystem of a mounted disk under Linux?
I have an external drive containing different pieces of music. The drive is a vfat formatted drive to be able to work with arbitrary devices.
On the device I have music stored from different artists sorted according to their name. However, I would…
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Why doesn't the Linux vfat driver allow certain characters?
The Linux vfat driver seems to disallow certain characters in vfat long file names: ?<>\:*|". I understand that Windows doesn't support these characters, but Wikipedia seems to indicate that the filesystem, itself, supports any non-null 16-bit…
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rsync to USB flash drive always transferring all data
When rsyncing a directory to a freshly plugged-in external USB flash drive, via
rsync -av /source/ /dest/
all files get transferred (i.e. rewritten) despite no changes in the files.
Note that overwriting the files only takes place once the USB is…
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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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mv `Argument list too long` for a single file
I was trying to move a set of 7 files to my computer, via mv g* dir. The command line moved 6 of them, and for the last file gave the following error:
mv: g.tex: Argument list too long
Since the other files, both those before and after it, are…
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change FAT16 partition UUID
I have created a FAT16 formatted partition on my USB stick using
mkdosfs /dev/sdb1
when I plug in my stick, it appears in /dev/ as:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ABCD-1234
How can I change the UUID of the disk to something else than ABCD-1234 ?
UPDATE
tune2fs…
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How to manually set the dirty bit on a FAT32 partition
For some debugging purposes, I'd like to be able to manually set the dirty bit of a FAT32 partition to true.
I found tons of information on how to use fsck.vfat to remove the dirty bit, but none on how to set it.
It's possible, since mount does it.…
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