Questions tagged [fat32]
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fsck last check for vfat and other filesystem (other than ext)
Is it possible to find the last check for vfat or other filesystem. since tune2fs can only be used for ext file system. Can someone address me with this?
Advanced Thanks..
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How to burn multiple partitions on single DVD?
Is there a way to create multiple partitions on DVD and make one of the partitions a bootable volume?
I like to create a small bootable partition that is formatted as FAT32 volume and create NTFS ...
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Recover filesystem after resize FAT32 [closed]
I recently resized one partition inside an LVM on my disk using gparted. No errors were given, but now the filesystem is corrupted and I'm trying to recover it.
When I mount it, no errors appear but ...
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Is there a mapping of USB Flash Drives to Fat32 / NTFS / Ex-Fat?
I am helping with documentation for a hardware product that is compatible with Fat32 Formatted USB sticks. Instead of saying "Fat32" and confusing users who may not be tech-savvy, we'd like to provide ...
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rsync with remote fat32
I've a script that syncs files between my server to my mobile via sshpass:
sshpass -p password rsync -vrz source1 source2 -e ssh user@ip:dest
using
-vrz
rsync everytime checks all files to ...
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using dd with conv=sparse to punch zeros
I am attempting to clone a disk partition to an image file using dd. I want to create the image without zeros to minimize the filesize, and on the other hand I do not want to pipe through gzip. The ...
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Repair FAT filesystem on image
I've got a USB pen drive with a corrupted FAT filesystem. Now I try to repair it. So to first try what I can get from it without endangering the original hardware further, I've created an image with ...
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How can I add a usb device to a domain xml from an image file?
I don't (repeat DONT) want to passthrough a physical usb device. I'm making a usb img file like so:
dd if=/dev/null bs=1K of=/tmp/test_usb.img seek=2040
mkfs.vfat /tmp/test_usb.img
I am then ...
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fsck.vfat auto repair on error
I use Ubuntu 10.04 on an embedded device. I have a CF card of 2GB formatted in FAT32.
From time to time, the device is powered off while data is written to the FAT partition.
As a result, the ...
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Should I use FAT or NTFS when using Windows XP as a KVM guest? [closed]
I am installing 32-bit Windows XP as a KVM guest on CentOS 6.
Should I be using FAT or NTFS filesystem and why?
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Unable to resolve data corruption warning with fsck
In order to create a contiguous space for my file system to grow, I created a new EFI System partition at sda1 so that I can migrate it from the current partition at sda5. The move itself has been ...
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FAT32 limit on total length of all filenames in a directory combined?
I've kind of a weird problem on one of our customer's backup harddrives: The harddrive is formatted in FAT32 and last night our backup jobs threw an error on a subdirectory, claiming that it couldn't ...
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rsync from linux host to fat32
i like to backup my linux based NAS (small files like picutres) to an attached USB Disk with FAT32.
For this i like to use rsync.
I know, that this will not work correct per default. rsync will sync ...
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How do I debug this FS error on a flash device?
I have console access to an embedded linux device. This device has flash memory part of which is partitioned as a FAT filesystem.
Its running linux-2.6.31.
However I am seeing these errors on the ...
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Why is NTFS better than FAT32? [closed]
Just wondering why NTFS is considered better, and how NTFS manages to do so (structure, actions, etc), compared to FAT.
thanks! :)
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NTFS or FAT32:Formatting Disk for PFSense
Im a network guy, and know very little about system administration. I would like to install PFSense and Monowall to 2 CF Cards, but not sure how they should be formatted (NTFS or FAT32) and volume ...
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Unable to mount fat drive in linux
This is sort of a continuation from How to mount a .bin image file in linux but it morphed into a different problem altogether, so I figured I'd ask a new question with the relevant info rather than ...
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How to recover data from re-partitioned hard drive
I have an external HDD that has been mistakenly re-partitioned and some data written on it.
Previous Partitions were: 480GB NTFS + 20GB FAT32
New partition is all FAT32 and only 70mb of data has ...
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Creating a 80GB image with dd on a FAT32 drive
I have a question concerning the creation of an drive image with dd.
Normally i would simply type: "dd if=/dev/foo of=/dev/bar". But in this case i only have a fat32 formatted drive at hand, which ...
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Linux: mount a "striped" disk image?
For various unpleasant reasons involving very large files and FAT32, I'd like to know if there is any way I can create a mountable disk image which is stored in multiple smaller (ie, "smaller than 4GB"...
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FreeNAS - Writing files on NTFS/FAT32 file format
I've recently installed FreeNAS and have been sing it successfully except one minor problem and that is I can't copy files to my FAT32/NTFS mounted hard disks. Is it not permissible in FreeNAS at all ...
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freenas - mounting a FAT32 partition with the right charset to "the"
I've just started off with FreeNAS and have got a bunch of data (300gb+) I need to get from a FAT32 partition which I need to shift to the FreeNAS ZFS partition.
FreeNAS has successfully mounted the ...
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How can I use rsync with a FAT file system?
I would like to write a simple backup script that saves some data to a FAT drive. Should I reformat the drive and use a better file system or is it possible to use rsync with FAT? If so, what problems ...
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How to format as FAT32 from Windows 7/Vista
What is the best way to format a USB drive with FAT32 (for Mac compatibility) from within Windows 7/Vista?
I ask because the Disk Management only lets you pick exFAT (because the disk is over 32&...
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Protocol to mount fat32 network filesystem on Linux with ability to lock files ( not advisory locks )
I have a fat32 filesystem sitting on a NAS storage device (nslu2) that I need to mount on my Ubuntu system. I've tried Samba and NFS mounts, but both don't seem to support proper locking. More ...
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Flash Drives - should be formatted NTFS?
Should Flash Drives be formatted NTFS? What are the Pros & Cons of doing so?
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Best file system for media server? [closed]
I need some advice on what file system to use for my new 1TB media server hosted on my Linux box. I have a few requirements:
Needs to be shareable to a different Windows machine (not dual booting, ...
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How to convert FAT32 disk to NTFS without losing data
Please suggest How to convert FAT32 disk to NTFS without losing data
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SD card will not mount on Ubuntu 9.04
I've got a video camera that records directly to SD(HC) cards; I've also got an Ubuntu 9.04 laptop (netbook) with an SD reader. I have a 16GB SDHC class 6 card that I was using for data storage on ...
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How to check that all paths/files on a volume conform to EXT3, FAT32, and HFS+
I have a volume with files on it that will need to be copied between Mac, Linux, and Windows machines. I want to ensure that there are no surprises with:
file size
filename length
filename character ...
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Is it bad to defrag a minimally fragmented drive?
Someone told me that it is not always a good idea to defragment a minimally fragmented drive (<2%); and that it could cause performance issues.
Are they right, and why/why not?
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