Re: resolved: Re: problem with automatically mounting a usb stick
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux.mint,alt.comp.os.windows-xp |
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| Organization | Dis |
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On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 01:50:34 -0400 Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 8/5/2026 1:20 AM, german newsgroups wrote: > > Le 05/08/2026 à 06:44, Mike Scott a écrit : > >> On 04/08/2026 19:42, Mike Easter wrote: > >>> Mike Scott wrote: > >>>> I changed nothing, rebooted and now all works fine. > >>> > >>> Sometimes 'replugging' fixes. > >> > >> Not in this case. The stick had been in and out, even completely reformatted as well. The other odd thing I didn't mention is that while fat-formatted sticks wouldn't mount, an ext4 one would. Anyway, I'll just have to hope it doesn't happen again. > >> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > i remember the spec for fat32 max data is 64Go ! if u use a strange part !?# > > > > Not true. FAT32 is good up to 2TB. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32 > > "Max volume size 2 TB (with 512 byte sectors)" > > The larger the volume size, the larger the required clusters are. > > The maximum individual file size is still a bit less than 4GB per file. > > On Windows, the Ridgecrop Consultants utility can prepare disks that way. > The Microsoft limitation was purely artificial in nature. > > https://web.archive.org/web/20210126003213/https://www.howtogeek.com/316977/how-to-format-usb-drives-larger-than-32gb-with-fat32-on-windows/ > Thanks. But not a LM thing, I've xposted & set FUs to alt.comp.os.windows-xp -- Bah, and indeed Humbug.