Questions tagged [exfat]
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How do I update the UUID of an ExFAT partition?
How do I set the UUID of an ExFat partition?
The linux tools I've tried (mlabel, gparted) only allow resetting the UUID to a different random one, not to a UUID I choose.
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How to format an external drive into encrypted exFAT in Windows 11?
My current USB drive (256gb) is formatted in Mac and is an encrypted APFS file system made in Disk Utility. I recently started using Windows 11 and I would like to transfer and access files between ...
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exFAT for mechanical spinning external HD as cross-platform backup?
We have a mix of Linux (Debian) and MacOS laptops. I have a 4 TB external USB mechanical rotary drive I'd like to use for backups. I'd not want to partition the drive with different file systems for ...
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Is it possible to have an exFAT partition inside an ISO file?
I'm using an USB 2.0 Stick with 16GB of storage and I have an installer ISO which is 2.8GB.
When flashing this ISO to the stick I notice that the speed is very slow (5 minutes) compared to copying the ...
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can't access larger than 32GB USB drive in Linux (Slackware 14.2)
I have no problem accessing all USB media of up to 32GB in size.
Today I tried using a 64GB stick and while the system recognizes it as a drive it cannot access the single partition.
When I tried ...
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testdisk undelete not showing up for exFAT formatted partition
I have a microSD card used as external storage on my Android phone and I accidentally deleted a file on it. The partition on which this file resided is formatted with the exFAT filesystem.
Now I am ...
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Use fsck to fix a corrupted exfat SD card that doesn't work on Android 12 anymore
After my Android phone crashed it brings an Issue with SD card and asks me to reformat it in order to use it again.
Luckily, on my Linux computer (Manjaro) the SD card is recognised and read without ...
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exFAT USB router sharing
I wish to plug in an USB drive to my router and be able to share the content across all connected devices.
The issue I have is that the drive is not seen and I think it's because the file system is ...
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File dates copied with "cp -p" are set to "now"
I'm using my Mac to try to copy the content of a smartphone's SD card to a larger card. Because I don't want all the pictures to get new creation dates I used the --preserve option like this:
cp -pr /...
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Why does Windows 10 only offer to format my memstick to NTFS (not eXFAT)?
I have a 128 GB memory stick which shipped with a exFAT-formatted file system.
But when I try to reformat it (context menu properties in File Explorer), it only offers to format to NTFS with no other ...
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exFAT ignores Cluster Size and small files always become 1MB
I use an external 4TB SSD and try to format it with the smallest possible Cluster Size. In the Windows Format Dialog the smallest Cluster Size is 256KB:
When I format the disk with 256KB and also ...
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Cloning an SD card onto a larger SD card - exFAT
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, and attempting to clone the SD card (128G) from my Android phone to a larger one (256G) for more capacity, without losing the file structure referencing my phone apps use.
I ...
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How can I check the cluster size (allocation unit size) of an exFat partition on Windows?
I want to reformat an exFAT USB drive with the same allocation size as the current factory exFAT partition, so when it ask me for allocation size, I don't know what to answer:
Thus the question: How ...
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What features of journaling file systems are actually useful? [closed]
Not concerning about permissions, security, seamless usage with different OS. Journaling remains unclear.
Do I need journaling (how exactly will it help)? If yes/no what is the threshold, when I ...
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Errors with tar/split backups
I am trying to create backups on an external exFAT disk, but I keep getting errors. I have to use FAT (exFAT or FAT32), so my options are very limited. I will need this to backup both macOS and ...
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