Automount fails on newest update

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 12:58, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

That's true and a fair point.

> 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).

OK, a good point.

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

It used to be -- I haven't checked recently. My impression was that a
few years ago MS made the code FOSS and all recent kernels include it,
although it's only much more recently that it's gained any ability to
repair it:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/01/linux_exfat_repair_drives/

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

TBH I was just trying to identify potential problems and possible workarounds...

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