Automount fails on newest update

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 12:37, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 02:17, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > exFAT (the default).
>
> That is the one bit that stands out to me.
>
> If you need it for Linux, then use a Linux format.

PMFJI but this is very important to me...

I've been experimenting with Linux and copying files from different
Linux systems and users and writing up my findings (2.5 pages so far).
I do backups to USB devices, formatted to the ext4 filesystem (because
some files - .tar.gz and .iso are bigger than 4GB).

That works.. to an extent. Things can get tricky really quickly
especially regarding user ids and file.directory permissions.

I believe that in this case that exfat is most suited as  I believe it
doesn't store user and group information. Experiments so far - with
different users and UIDs - and checking integrity of files with
sha256sum - have backed this up (pun not intended).

If you have the right package installed (exfatprogs on Ubuntu, I
believe), even GNOME Disks will let you format an exfat drive.

Is there something else I should know about exfat on Linux?

TIA,


Ian



-- 
-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org
-- My writing - https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/
-- Free Software page -
https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md