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Re: [LUG] USB stick does not display

 


On 01/04/2019 10:59, Simon Waters wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 March 2019 09:43:35 BST Neil wrote:
>> On 30/03/2019 15:17, Eion MacDonald wrote:
>>> ow can I be having problems with my partition tables in all
>>>
>>>> three of them at the same time?
>>>
>>> The partition table is resident on the USB discs, so if affected it (the
>>> affected USB partition table(s) would show up as affected in any
>>> computer into which it is attached for opening.
>>
>> Thanks for that. I had not realised that. Live and learn!!
> 
> My guess is you've installed the file system (ext4) onto the raw device, so 
> there is no MS-DOS style partition table on the devices.
> 
> This is fine for Linux, although it suggests the mounting options have changed 
> if they use to automount, and stopped.
> 
> Usually you'd have to set up a rule to mount such devices, but there are a 
> plethora of ways. In the old days you'd just add a line to /etc/fstab or to 
> the automounter config, but now systemd gets involved I have no clue where to 
> start. Google he suggests Mints disk utility can configure this for you.
> 
> 

For data storage small USB keys, I tend to alter file system on USB keys
from ExFAT or FAT as they come to NTFS, as this retains the ability to
use in both Linux and MS Dos/Windows systems and store larger files.

-- 
Regards
Eion MacDonald

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