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On 24/08/13 11:45, Simon Robert -Cottage wrote:
As a second reply to you, note that the other two sticks are also formatted as ext4 and they have no problems. As soon as I insert either of them into one of the USB ports on the laptop they are recognised, the file manager is opened up at the relevant page and a message box appears to tell me that 'The volume was mounted automatically'. The Kingston stick is simply not found. Strange!I know that in theory it's ideologically nice to have your USB stick formatted to something linuxie, but I've had so many problems using ext4 etc with my USB stuff and file permissions that I just use FAT32. Also for me USB sticks, external harddrives etc., are all about portability and ext4 ain't gonna give you that if you want to watch that movie, transfer that album, run that powerpoint presentation or print your document from some windows box. Life is too short to spend time faffing around with permissions on libre office docs, so my advice would be to swallow your geekly pride, grit your teeth and format the thing to FAT32. So if you're sure your never going to go near windows just make sure the file permissions are set to let everything and everybody use it and anything you transfer to it also. S
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