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How to preserve creation time when copying [duplicate]
I want to preserve Access, Modify and Birth timestamps when copying files. I tried the following flags. rsync --atimes --times --crtimes --archive However I get an error that crtimes is not supported....
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How to avoid "cannot find in /etc/fstab" problem
I have just opened my GParted application and did a format for /dev/sdc1 to exfat type. But while trying to mount the drive after formatting is completed I am getting the following error. It is ...
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How to determine, with certainty, the filesystem type of a partition from the outputs of the Linux "file -s" command?
My problem is to decode the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX on my system (where /dev/sdX is the device file associated to a USB key). Below I'll show the output of the command file -s /dev/sdX ...
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Can't mount exfat external hard disk drive: "Volume was not properly unmounted."
I can't mount my HDD anymore. After the last time I used it, I clicked "Remove safely" in my file browser, and now I can't read data on it anymore. Here are some diagnostic commands I ...
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rsync causes exFAT filesystem error: Drive set to read-only, fsck fails to resolve
I have an external HDD (15 TB) that I use as a backup storage. Usually I perform the command rsync -aluv /mylocalfolder /mytargetfolder to save my data. But this time Linux sets the file system to &...
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Have drwxrwxrwx permissions on folder, but after mounting to it it becomes drwxr-xr-x which disalows members of the group to write. How do I fix it?
I have a folder under /mnt/ with drwxrwxrwx permissions and under root:root I then mount a USB drive (exFAT) to this folder and it becomes drwxr-xr-x The issue is that now I cannot scp to that folder ...
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Kernel-mounted vs FUSE-mounted exfat filesystem
I have read that support for the exfat filesystem has been incorporated in the Linux kernel since kernel ver 5.4 was released in late 2019 - early 2020. I'm confused about what this means wrt the ...
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Creating a compressed image of an exFAT USB drive using dd
My system is running Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I plug a USB drive into that system. That USB drive (/dev/sdb) contains an Ubuntu installation, mostly in an ext4 partition (/dev/sdb3). That installation ...
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