Questions tagged [fat32]
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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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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 partition goes into read-only mode. I would like to know…
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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 specifically, I am unable to save files to the mounted…
user14852
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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 size. Both of the cards are 8 gigs. I was also…
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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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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 been written to it.
Is there any way I can recover all…
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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") files — for example, like OS X's sparse…
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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 a list of compatible drives and brands.
Rather…
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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 mobile,
using
-vrz --update --modify-window=1
rsync…
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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 solution I found consists of writing zeros to a…
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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 partition that can host larger files.
Is there a…
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Recover filesystem after resize FAT32
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 when I ls into the mount point I have a directory…
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Should I use FAT or NTFS when using Windows XP as a KVM guest?
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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