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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 17:03:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372345439.6662.0@numa-i> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CBF443.3040209@gmail.com> (from alan.mckinnon@gmail.com on Thu Jun 27 10:13:55 2013)

On 06/27/2013 10:13:55 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> exfat does what you want - it was designed to "just work" on the very
> large removeable media we have nowadays (think 7G movie files) and
> bypass all the nonsense like "does the user that created this file  
> even
> exist on the machine that is reading it?"
> 
> It also works pretty well
> 

Hi,
my comment might be completely off topic, but it might, as well, be a  
serious warning.

I have a Garmin GPS device which has an internal storage of 4GB and an  
additional SD card
with a capacity of 32 GB. The device can be attached to a USB port.

Now, when looking from (a virtual) Windows 7 OS, the file systems on  
both of these are reported
as FAT 32. In addition running CHKDSK doesn't reveal any problems.

Looking from my native GenToo (on the very same hardware, without  
Windows running),
the smaller 4GB file system looks just nice (files and meta data being  
identical to what Windows has reported)


The larger file system (declared as vfat in /etc/fstab) gets mounted  
without any problems.
But an 'ls' commands shows question marks all over the place except for  
few single characters.
In addition, in the beginning, when there were less than 4GB data on  
that SD card, the file system
looked just fine under Linux, as well. Only afterwards, like now, when  
it holds more than 20GB data,
I cannot use it any more from my Gentoo system.

Does anybody have an idea what's going on or where to report this bug?

Many thanks,
Helmut.

P.S. I have tried to mount that file system as exFAT under GenToo but  
that was rejected.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-26 13:09 [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-26 14:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-26 15:59   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-27  8:23     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-27  8:36       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-26 16:40   ` Florian Philipp
2013-06-27  1:33     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27  8:13       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-27 11:36         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27 15:03         ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]

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