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This software turns a single-board computer into a versatile, pocket-sized backup solution. Especially for digital photography, this is the solution for backing up images and media files on mass storage devices when traveling or at events. Media content can be viewed and rated for the subsequent process.
http://littlebackupbox.com
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exFAT not mounting #73

Closed fakemaxwell closed 3 years ago

fakemaxwell commented 3 years ago

Running into an issue with the exFAT format. I've successfully used LBB with NTFS and FAT32, where it worked normally. Under System Info I can see that both formats mount correctly. With exFAT, I see "sda1" show up, but nothing mounts. Attached a pic of the system info screen.

Is there something else that needs to be done to get exFAT to work correctly? Thanks.

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dmpop commented 3 years ago

You have a 1.8TB drive formatted as exFAT? Could you perhaps try a smaller capacity drive?

fakemaxwell commented 3 years ago

The only small drive I have is 8GB. exFAT works on it. Is there a size limitation to exFAT that I'm not aware of?

The idea is to use this to transfer pretty large video files in the field, to be used mostly on Mac computers. FAT32 has the 4GB limitation and NTFS is read only, although there are workarounds. I tried using HFS with LBB but it didn't work.

dmpop commented 3 years ago

The only small drive I have is 8GB. exFAT works on it. Is there a size limitation to exFAT that I'm not aware of?

Looks like it.

HFS is not supported. I might add support for it at some point. But this is not a priority for me. You may want to try to find out hoe to mount ext4-formatted storage devices on Mac.