Mounting exfat usb stick

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 03:20:20 UTC 2015



On 07/30/2015 08:38 PM, g wrote:
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> On 07/30/15 20:16, jd1008 wrote:
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>> So I tried as root, and it mounted OK:
>> mount | grep sdc1
>> /dev/sdc1 on /sdc1 type fuseblk
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=508,group_id=508,allow_other,blksize=4096)
>>
>>
>> then as root I tried to copy a file to /sdc1:
>>
>> # cp rpms.list /sdc1/
>> cp: cannot create regular file ‘/sdc1/rpms.list’: No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> So, what else need I do so that regular users can mount and write to usb
>> sticks that are formatted as exfat FS?
>>
> do not have an answer for your question, but i do have a question about
> what you show above.
>
> you show "/sdc1/" in command, while your 'mount"grep' shows "/dev/sdc1".
> are you working in "/dev" directory?
No!!
I mount /dev/sdc1 on the directory /sdc1

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> with command "# cp rpms.list /sdc1/", is "rpms.list" in current directory?
Current directory  (of the shell) happens to be other than /sdc1.

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> comment: when showing command lines, is best to 'drag and paste' than just
> write a command line. sometimes it helps to show full command line prompt.
>
> just asking and trying to understand. :-)
No problem.

I think that there are quirks about the implementation of exfat
as a user land driver (filesystem), instead of a kernel driver like ext[n].



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