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On 06/27/2013 10:13:55 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> exfat does what you want - it was designed to "just work" on the very |
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> large removeable media we have nowadays (think 7G movie files) and |
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> bypass all the nonsense like "does the user that created this file |
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> even |
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> exist on the machine that is reading it?" |
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> It also works pretty well |
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Hi, |
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my comment might be completely off topic, but it might, as well, be a |
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serious warning. |
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I have a Garmin GPS device which has an internal storage of 4GB and an |
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additional SD card |
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with a capacity of 32 GB. The device can be attached to a USB port. |
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Now, when looking from (a virtual) Windows 7 OS, the file systems on |
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both of these are reported |
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as FAT 32. In addition running CHKDSK doesn't reveal any problems. |
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Looking from my native GenToo (on the very same hardware, without |
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Windows running), |
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the smaller 4GB file system looks just nice (files and meta data being |
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identical to what Windows has reported) |
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The larger file system (declared as vfat in /etc/fstab) gets mounted |
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without any problems. |
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But an 'ls' commands shows question marks all over the place except for |
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few single characters. |
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In addition, in the beginning, when there were less than 4GB data on |
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that SD card, the file system |
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looked just fine under Linux, as well. Only afterwards, like now, when |
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it holds more than 20GB data, |
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I cannot use it any more from my Gentoo system. |
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Does anybody have an idea what's going on or where to report this bug? |
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Many thanks, |
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Helmut. |
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P.S. I have tried to mount that file system as exFAT under GenToo but |
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that was rejected. |
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