[SOLVED] 32GB USB drive mounts Read Only while 4GB mounts RW
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32GB USB drive mounts Read Only while 4GB mounts RW
When I tried to mount my new 128GB microSD card I got exfat unknown message.
I installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, and now the card can be mounted, but only as readonly.
I tried mounting a vfat 32GB card with the same result - readonly.
A vfat 4GB card mounts RW.
The fuse exfat driver is pretty reliable. It's not 100%, but it's not that far off. I have never run into any issues and all my USB's are formatted exfat from 2GB to 128GB.
I suspect that either exfat-fuse or exfat-utils changed something in my system. Before installing them I had full RW access to 32GB vfat cards. Now I do not.
Vfat or Exfat? They're different filesystems. Vfat is Fat16/Fat32. Exfat is...well...exfat, it was designed to replace fat32. If you're trying to access vfat partitions, then exfat driver shouldn't even be loading. Also if vfat for any reason detect an "unsafe removal", the flag on fat32 for that will prevent it from being written to on linux, and the only way to fix it is to do a "scan and repair" from windows or a dosfsck to fix the flag.
Last edited by Timothy Miller; 06-12-2020 at 11:10 PM.
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