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Questions tagged [fat32]

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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 might I run into? Would performance be a lot…
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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 GB I believe). Doing it from the command line with…
Schneider
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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 successful except for a warning which says: kernel:…
Question Overflow
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Flash Drives - should be formatted NTFS?

Should Flash Drives be formatted NTFS? What are the Pros & Cons of doing so?
jinsungy
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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 the files again and again. I found this question…
The Bndr
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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 console these days and the FAT file system becomes…
Ankur Agarwal
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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 copy the files that it had to copy. I checked the…
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Best file system for media server?

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, totally different box). I see that there might at…
Greg Noe
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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
Krishna Kumar
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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 should be used for the output. Fat32 only allows…
Darokthar
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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 set number of nested directories Am I correct to…
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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?
BIBD
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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 dd using the following command line: $ sudo dd…
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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 attempting to create the domain with the following…
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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 making a gigantic comment chain. I have a drive,…
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