Questions tagged [exfat]
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What is the difference from exfat-fuse and exfat-nofuse?
Until now I have never dwelled on the word fuse but then I saw that there is nofuse.
Based on searches I have done in the the internet they don't clearly explain the difference. What is the difference ...
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Veracrypt exFat inside Kubernetes pod
I have a working solution to run this veracrypt command inside a pod:
veracrypt --text --quick --non-interactive --create /media/vera --volume-type normal --size 200M --password 123456 --hash SHA-512 -...
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Why is the default allocation unit size smaller (2048 bytes) for exFAT than for NTFS (4096 bytes) when formatting a disk on Windows 7? [duplicate]
I see that the default allocation unit size is smaller for exFAT (2048 bytes) than for NTFS (4096 bytes) when formatting a disk on Windows 7 via Windows Explorer:
Why is the default allocation unit ...
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Why is 1024 Cluster Size with blank drive being shown while querying WMIC for available drives?
I wanted to know cluster sizes for my flash drive (ExFAT), and I followed the useful answer here:
https://superuser.com/a/1358598/602756
Here is output of cmd: wmic volume get driveletter,blocksize
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Timestamp changes when copying file to exFAT drive
I am using Windows 10 and i formatted my USB pen drive as exFAT.
Then I copied a file with modification timestamp 22:57:46 to the pen drive and the it stays the same (the date doesn't matter).
Then I ...
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Have to backup directories with symlinks to exfat - what to do?
The exFAT filesystem does not support symlinks.
I'm now faced with the need to backup some directories, which do have symlinks, into an exFAT-formatted drive. For reasons, I cannot change the ...
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Is exFAT a concern in 2021? [closed]
I am buying 2 TB external HDD. It will mostly be used on windows system but once in a while I might want to use it on a Mac. exFAT seems to be the best way to go about it but I came across a couple of ...
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ext4 vs EXFAT: Storage size difference
I have 2 hard drives, one is EXT4 and one is EXFAT. Both are 8TB, and both contain the same files.
However, if I look at the amount of space being used in Gparted on Ubuntu, there is a big difference. ...
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resizing an exFAT partition on Windows 10 [duplicate]
I'm trying to shrink the main partition on my 2TB drive to 1TB, so that I can create a new one for installing a Linux distro. The Windows 10 disk manager doesn't let me shrink it, and I want to know ...
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ExFAT directory/file structure corrupt but readable on USB stick
I have a lot of files on a 128GB USB stick to transfer between computers. I've been updating the the stick regularly but manually. Last time I did this I was going to copy from the stick to my main PC ...
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Fix corrupted exFAT upcase table manually
I have recently encountered the error "upcase table is not found" on my SD card formatted with exFAT,
after it worked just fine the previous day.
No tool I tried on Windows or Linux could ...
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My backup HDD comes formatted with exFAT; should I reformat it?
I've gotten an HDD for backup purposes. I intend to backup various kinds of files from my desktop computer - nothing special to make assumptions about. Now, the HDD has been preformatted with an exFAT ...
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Why rsync found files who has vanished on exfat synology?
I try to transfer some files from an external hard drive in exfat to my synology Nas using rsync using the usb connection.
During the transfert rsync found files who have vanished when it's time to ...
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FAT32 and exFAT, which file timestamps are supported?
is it true that the FAT32 only supports these file timestamps?
Creation time (birth time)
Modified time
Change time
Access time does not exist on FAT32.
With exFAT all 4 timestamps are supported:
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Windows 10: How to deal with foldernames ending with space(s) that are allowed on Linux but cannot be used any further in Windows Explorer?
This is a follow up of Windows 10 trouble with as an allowed foldername ending on Linux.
This happens when you paste a file into a folder that has a space ending, it simply doubles, and the previous ...
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