File Allocation Table (FAT) is a computer file system architecture now widely used on many computer systems and most memory cards, such as those used with digital cameras.
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Rsyncing files with special characters to USB FAT32
I want to copy a large number of files to a USB drive that is formatted FAT32 (and cannot be formatted anything else, unfortunately).
Many of these files have names with characters such as : and ? ...
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A clever way to defragment a FAT filesystem?
What is the best way to defragment a FAT filesystem when running Linux/Unix (on usb stick for instance)?
Copy all content elsewhere, format, copy back again?
Use FreeDOS defrag utility, in a KVM ...
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Reorder folders on FAT32 drive
My car can read MP3 files from a FAT32 flash drive. I have a folder for each artist on the drive, then MP3 files in those folders.
However the car does not read the folders alphabetically, but by the ...
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Reserved characters in file names
I was under the impression that the only character not allowed in file names was /, but I don't seem to be able to create a file whose name contains characters such as *, \, ", :, |, < or > ...
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Howto configure autofs to work with usbsticks formatted with differend filesystems
I have some USB-sticks using fat32 as filesystem and others using ext4. Now I want to configure autofs to mount the sticks automatically.
To make sure that the user can write to fat32 sticks I use ...
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How to change the volume name of a FAT32 filesystem?
I know I can set the volume name when I format the partition with the -n option of mkfs.vfat. But how to just change the name without formatting?
I especially want to be able to use lower and ...
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Linux, fat32 and etc/fstab
I mounted a FAT32 drive onto my Linux computer using the following terminal command:
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/exampleFolderName -o dmask=000, fmask=111
I did this so I could share / edit ...
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Where can I see the last mount time?
E.g: I need to know when was the last time a pendrive was mounted. Where could I see that? The pendrive has e.g.: FAT32, EXT3 filesystem.
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Change file creation time on a FAT filesystem
I need a way to change the creation time of a file on a mounted FAT32 volume. I have to do that because my MP3 player will only read files sorted by this creation time.
If I can find a way to set the ...
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renaming a fat16 volume
What's the easiest way to rename (change the volume label of) a fat16 volume (e.g. on a USB drive) from linux? It seems like mlabel from the mtools package is meant to do this, but the documentation ...
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Mount USB (FAT) in Gentoo
Can somebody show me how to make Gentoo mount my USB? This is what I got when trying mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage ...
