How to install an exFAT USB drive

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Re: How to install an exFAT USB drive

Post by TrevorH » 2020/01/16 21:19:37

exFAT support from nux-dextop seems to work well for me and it uses fuse. Since it's the only filesystem shared between linux and Windows (apart from the more restricted fat/vfat which have size limits), exFAT support seems like a reasonable way to go.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: How to install an exFAT USB drive

Post by rtcary » 2020/01/16 21:27:23

What is the command to install nux-dextop?
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Re: How to install an exFAT USB drive

Post by TrevorH » 2020/01/16 21:33:15

You'll need to google for it then find his nux-release rpm and install that which will give you access to the rest of the contents.
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Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: How to install an exFAT USB drive

Post by rtcary » 2020/01/16 21:53:10

Thanks to your help and patience, I now have the usb drive mounted! However, do to not having a full awareness of naming customs, possiblely should mount it to a different place.

I created /usb and mounted it as

mount /dev/sdb1 /usb/

Would the rsync command be

rsync -av --delete /var/www/html/ /usb/html

Suggestion welcomed...

Todd
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