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How to preserve creation time when copying [duplicate]
I want to preserve Access, Modify and Birth timestamps when copying files. I tried the following flags.
rsync --atimes --times --crtimes --archive
However I get an error that crtimes is not supported....
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Interpreting results of du -sh on different file systems
I have a collection of *.jpg files and intend to do some ImageMagick on them.
Making a backup and checking, du -sh gives 762M on vfat and 5.6G on exfat.
Why is that? Is it a bug or a feature?
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How to avoid "cannot find in /etc/fstab" problem
I have just opened my GParted application and did a format for /dev/sdc1 to exfat type. But while trying to mount the drive after formatting is completed I am getting the following error.
It is ...
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Files that end with a period are inaccessible on an exFAT drive
I have a backup that was copied from Linux (ext4) to an exFAT filesystem.
File and directory names that end with a period are inaccessible.
I can (partly) list them, but ls behaves strangely.
It ...
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How to determine, with certainty, the filesystem type of a partition from the outputs of the Linux "file -s" command?
My problem is to decode the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX on my system (where /dev/sdX is the device file associated to a USB key).
Below I'll show the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX ...
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On yocto distribution I'm not able to mount an USB key formatted with exfat filesystem
On my yocto distribution I can't mount USB key with exfat filesystem.
If I execute the command:
> blkid /dev/sda
/dev/sda: LABEL="my-label" UUID="FC4D-5949" BLOCK_SIZE=&...
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Can't mount exfat external hard disk drive: "Volume was not properly unmounted."
I can't mount my HDD anymore. After the last time I used it, I clicked "Remove safely" in my file browser, and now I can't read data on it anymore.
Here are some diagnostic commands I ...
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mount options of udisks2 (dmask, fmask) are not applied when mounted with udisksctl (exfat fs)
I have a removable SD Card formatted with exfat which I would like to mount with udisksctlvia the udisks2 mechanism.
What I want to do is to replicate a noexec option by using dmask=0002 and fmask=...
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rsync causes exFAT filesystem error: Drive set to read-only, fsck fails to resolve
I have an external HDD (15 TB) that I use as a backup storage. Usually I perform the command
rsync -aluv /mylocalfolder /mytargetfolder
to save my data. But this time Linux sets the file system to &...
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obtain time and information about file/folder name change of exfat file system
If I do a stat on a file of a exfat file system, it does provide me the modify/change/creation times.
Is there a way to find if the file name has changed? I know there are likely lower level commands ...
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Have drwxrwxrwx permissions on folder, but after mounting to it it becomes drwxr-xr-x which disalows members of the group to write. How do I fix it?
I have a folder under /mnt/ with drwxrwxrwx permissions and under root:root
I then mount a USB drive (exFAT) to this folder and it becomes drwxr-xr-x
The issue is that now I cannot scp to that folder ...
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Recover exFAT filesystem after bad fsck operation
I spotted a message in dmesg: "Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.", and so I ended up running a command: doas fsck /dev/sda. This produced some ...
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Kernel-mounted vs FUSE-mounted exfat filesystem
I have read that support for the exfat filesystem has been incorporated in the Linux kernel since kernel ver 5.4 was released in late 2019 - early 2020. I'm confused about what this means wrt the ...
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Is exfat-utils missing in debian 12?
$ apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse
returns as output
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package exfat-utils is not available, but ...
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Creating a compressed image of an exFAT USB drive using dd
My system is running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I plug a USB drive into that system. That USB drive (/dev/sdb) contains an Ubuntu installation, mostly in an ext4 partition (/dev/sdb3). That installation ...
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How to allow users to mount FUSE/exfat filesystems in fstab without root?
I have a filesystem listed in /etc/fstab and I'd like a normal user to be able to mount it.
Normally I would just add the users option and it will work, however it seems that if the filesystem is ...
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Unable to mount exfat external hardrive in CentOS 7
I am trying to mount an external hard drive (exFAT partition) on my machine (CentOS7).
I read that exfat is not natively handled so I installed exfat-utils and fuse-exfat rpm packages by doing:
yum ...
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Disable write cache for exFAT partitions
For context, I'm on kernel 6.1, so using post-5.7 in-tree exFAT kernel drivers.
Currently, if I plug in an exFAT-formatted flash drive and write to it, it will write to a RAM cache and flush to flash ...
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ExFat mount permission
I am trying to mount an exfat drive using fstab with read/write permission for both user and group.
The line of etc/fstab for this drive is:
UUID=5E98-37EA /home/ftagliacarne/data/media exfat defaults,...
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What are the detriments of not setting MSFTDATA flag when making a exFAT partition?
I have several external HDDs that I backup data to and occasionally plugin internally when I need access to the data.
I erased all partitions by making a new GPT partition table on the disk.
I made a ...
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Change file creation timestamp on an exFAT volume from Linux
The question
As of today, Unix standards don't support a file "creation time" attribute. However, many filesystems, like ext4, exFAT and NTFS, internally do save a creation time for their ...
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Using allow_utime with exfat
Considering the fact that exfat does not store ownership information of files, is it possible to mount an exfat partition in Linux with an allow_utime option that is also available for vfat? If not, ...
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How to create a USB Kali UEFI bootable dongle with a exFAT partition
I'm struggling with the creation of a USB UEFI bootable dongle of kali linux. Basically I want to create a dongle able to boot kali linux in UEFI mode that also has an exFAT partition recognizable by ...
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Mounting exFAT drive on Fedora 35 requires specifying device
I am running Fedora 35 and am trying to mount an exFAT drive, specifically an SD memory card for my digital camera.
The computer identifies the card reader as device /dev/sde1 and I am trying to use /...
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Boot is long because fsck.exfat spends time because exfat volume was not unmounted cleanly
I have a SDD partition in exFat in order to have a common partition between macOs and Linux Manjaro and Linux Mint.
The Manjaro boot and the Linux Mint boot are very long because fsck of exFat take ...
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How do I use file_mode and dir_mode with an exfat drive in /etc/fstab?
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 Server with Kernel 5.11 including built in exfat support - I don't have exfat-fuse or exfat-utilities and would prefer to just use the new native kernel support.
I'm able to ...
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Change the file system of a partition without deleting its content
I have a 2tb hard drive containing gpt and a single 2tb partition with ext4 file system. The partition has one 1.5tb file inside it. I want to change the type of file system of this partition from ...
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Is there a defragmentation utility for ExFAT available in GNU/Linux world?
I came across a SSD which have a very significant performance drop (about 20 times). As there is an ExFAT filesystem used, I suspect it might be due to fragmentation.
Is there a tool available in the ...
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Mounting exFAT on Debian and use as Samba share - no write permissions
I'm currently trying to mount an external exFAT drive on Debian 10 and use that as a Samba drive. Everything works and I can access the drive from my macOS machine. However, I'm unable to write ...
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Tool to shrink exFAT filesystem offline for Linux
As of 2021, is there a tool to shrink exFAT filesystem offline for Linux ?
I tested with gparted v1.3.1 but gparted does not support exfat resizing.
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Why can't I copy all files in a directory to a USB storage device?
The sdc1 was mounted on /media/debian/Ventoy.
debian@debian:~$ sudo blkid | grep Ventoy
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Ventoy" UUID="F82D-76BE" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="exfat" ...
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How to mount a SD Card which was formatted with exfat by a Lumix G9 camera?
The SD card was formatted by a Panasonic Lumix G9.
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/sd/ -t exfat
ls -1 /mnt/sd/DCIM/
100_PANA
101_PANA
The pictures in 100_PANA are displayed in the camera, but the mounted ...
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Can't move/copy/download files with ?, !, :, or | to exFAT flash drive
I've got a bunch of video files on my laptop's internal ext4 SSD (running Ubuntu 20.04, but this same error would presumably occur on any Linux install running kernel version 5.4 or newer, as exFAT ...
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exFAT Refusing to mount - The primary GPT table is corrupt
I am trying to mount a 4TB exFAT HD on my Manjaro Linux 5.9.11 system. It refuses to mount using the default kernel drivers:
mount: /home/user/Ark: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/...
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How to install non-FUSE Samsung's open-source exFAT driver?
I've had problems with the FUSE driver exfat-fuse, in some particular cases (Samba share, etc.).
So I wanted to test the new Samsung's exFAT driver (open-source). I see it's merged in Linux kernel 5.7,...
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How do I find the filesystem/partition UUID of an ExFAT partition?
All in the title. My problem is, I have an ExFAT partition on my disk that I want to mount using a UUID, but I can't seem to find any information on it.
fdisk -l says:
[logandark@arch-base ~]$ sudo ...
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Chown & Chmod commands returning Operation not permitted on Hard Disk [duplicate]
I have a raspberry pi 3b+ and am unable to change/give permissions to an external hard disk I've connected to it. A similar question is:
chown command returning Operation not permitted
Also I've ...
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Native exFAT support in 5.4 kernel - issues?
Fresh install Ubuntu Server 20.04. cat /proc/filesystems shows exfat in the output. Not installed any other packages for exFAT as it should work from kernel.
Mounted 2 internal HDDs on in fstab as ...
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Patch CentOS 8 with Microsoft exFAT source Code, Linux Kernel 5.x,
I'm interested on extract original code of Microsoft exFAT File System, and Compile it into my CentOS 8 (I know its the Kernel is very delayed to 5.4 or 5.7 version).
I know the existence of
https://...
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Install CentOS 8, on new Laptop with No started Windows 10, Dual
I purchased a Lenovo Laptop that includes Windows 10 Pro.
I would like to install CentOS 8, But I don't want to start Windows 10 Pro installation and I don't want to lose the option of first Windows ...
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What is the relation between exfat-utils and the exFAT kernel driver?
From a Phoronix article:
Long story short, with Linux 5.7 is a much better Microsoft exFAT
file-system implementation that is more reliable and with more
functionality than the older driver ...
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How can I make my ExFAT partition unmount cleanly?
I've got Raspbian running on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. I have a USB hard disk that I'm using with it. The hard disk is a 1TB drive formatted with a single partition using ExFAT. I've got exfat-fuse and ...
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Can't Mount exFat partition with Linux (exFat is installed)
I am running Linux on an external SSD.
I am trying to mount an exFat partition which is on the internal hard drive. ( MS Windows is installed on an NTFS partition on the internal drive. )
exFat is ...
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Connecting USB external hard drive to a server in a datacenter - how to ensure that it works?
I've bought a pair of Seagate Expansion 4TB 2.5" drives, with the intention of posting them to my webhost (Hetzner in Germany) for them to connect so I can use them as bandwidth rather than try to ...
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What fs-type should I use in parted when creating an exFAT partition?
When I try to create a partition with parted and a filesystem type of 'exFAT', I encounter the following error:
parted: invalid token: exFAT
What fs-type should I use when creating a partition ...
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How to find built-in SD card reader (MMC) details?
I have been attempting to mount a SDXC (exFAT) card into the built-in MMC reader in my laptop. I keep getting "mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card" errors in dmesg and the device is never ...
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How to detect NTFS/exFAT file system type from script
User has a (incremental) backup script using rsync, to external device. This was erroring on an SSD he had. Turns out his device was formatted exFAT. That means I need to detect this in the script, ...
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SD Card Recovery without data loss or corruption
I have a 128 GB Micro SD Card that I formatted as ext4 and used in a Chromebook for an Ubuntu Chroot Environment. I used it for quite some time that way. At some point, I either deleted everything off ...
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How to make exfat appear as a disk on Computer (RedHat 6)
I have a redhat 6 on 1TB HDD and another 1TB HDD with exfat format, anyway on Computer I can find the drive where redhat installed but not the exfat drive.
I do add a line to /etc/fstab for auto ...
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Configure mount to recognize self compiled fuse exfat
after removing the default exfat-fuse package version 1.2.5 from my Debian Stretch system and replacing it with version 1.3.0, compiled from source, running mount using type exfat results to an ...
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