Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

[Jacques Montier <jmontier@gmail.com>]

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Le jeu. 24 oct. 2024 à 05:01, Mitchell Dorrell <mwd@psc.edu> a écrit :

> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:35 PM syscon edm <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It was my error, the command should be:
>> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
>> The usb was auto-mounted as soon as the command finished.
>>
>
> You can format the whole thing (/dev/sda) as one big ext4 volume, yes, but
> unless I'm very mistaken, that's not standard practice. USB storage devices
> usually have a partition table with one or more partitions defined. The
> first partition would be /dev/sda1, so the usual commands to format such a
> partition would use /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda.
>
> Since you're formatting it as ext4, I suppose you only intend to use this
> on Linux machines. I guess it's probably OK to format the whole device as
> ext4, without any partition table. However, I would definitely advise
> against it for any USB device you might use in a cross-platform
> environment. I have no idea whether you can skip the partition table and
> still be usable with computers running Windows or Mac OS or with embedded
> systems like home printers or commercial photo kiosks.
>
> -MD
>


Hello,

Same issue.
No automount usb disk ext4 formatted with cinnamon 6.
Automounting with fat32, ntfs or xfat formatted disk.

Cheers,

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Jacques

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