I have a 320GB external HDD with 2 partitions, both primary:
1. vfat 100GB
2. ext3 remainder
Both were formatted when I created them with qtparted.
Windows 7 sees them, and says they are healthy, but does not recognize the vfat partition. Is it too big, perhaps?
Short of moving everything off the vfat partition and recreating it with W7, how do I fix it?
The only way I know to set VFAT volume name under Linux is mkfs.vfat -n desired_name ..., which obviously destroys volume's contents.
Is there a way to change the volume name non-destructively, as Windows does?
This name is conveniently used to name the volume on auto-mount.
(I'd gladly use a better FS, but all my cameras want only VFAT-formatted flash media.)
I am formatting a few drives and was told I should use fat32 since they're USB flash drives. My question is I don't see a mkfs.fat32 option but I do see the following:
I realize this should be simple; haven't been LInuxing for a while. I can't get access to a mounted vfat partition.
In the init.rc, you can find some interesting:
Code:
exec /system/bin/iqcopy /system/etc/iq.img.vfat /data/iq.img.vfat
chown system system /data/iq.img.vfat
mkdir /data/app_iq_archive
chown system system /data/app_iq_archive
chmod 0640 /data/app_iq_archive
mount vfat loop@/data/iq.img.vfat /data/app_iq_a
How can I present a Linux native file system, e.g. YAFFS2, ext3, to Windows over USB such that it appears as VFAT or NTFS?
I currently share a VFAT loop back file using the g_file_storage kernel module. Ideally, there is some translation layer available that presents one file system as another type of file system.
I have dual HD setup (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … artitions/). Question: can a simple storage partition be ext4 (as opposed to vfat)? Is ext4 safer than vfat (viruses, instability etc)? The ext4 / windows nexus has an obvious downside, but that goes w/o saying :) What would you use & why?
Hello
I have a USB drive with a virus, this virus puts the pen drive with attributes "read-only" when I connect it onto the USB port.
I tried to recover the flash usb drive using several alternatives:
I want to share pictures between my wife and me, on an external USB drive. The OS is ubuntu 12.04.
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