Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >Both FAT32 and exFat lack permissions. >FAT32 max file size is 4gb. exFat max file size is 16*EB*. >Only back in January did gparted get the ability to format to exFAT. >(gparted 1.2.0+ using exfatprogs) exFAT is not open source and the

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread Russell Senior
Step 1: dpkg -l grub-pc which should give you the partially installed version you've got. Step 2: dpkg --debug=3 -i /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-pc_*.deb According to dpkg --debug=help, --debug=3 turns on 1 general Generally helpful progress information 2 scripts

Re: [PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread Russell Senior
You might have a look at this file: /var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst That's the post installation script that is exiting with an error status. On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 1:47 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the > usual updates)

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread Vince Winter
I looked up the Ubuntu repo version of gparted. The repo lists gparted as 1.1.0 version. And before kernel support, there was exfat-fuse. In gparted you can go to view > fie system support to see what it supports on each filesystem. What version of exfat-fuse and gparted are you using? Taking 32

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread Jason Barnett
It sounds like a USB1 drive, and a slow one at that! On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 7:54 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:23:34 -0700 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >I can't even get anything done. This is ridiculous. I'm going to have > >to nuke exFAT on this USB stick. At the

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:23:34 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I can't even get anything done. This is ridiculous. I'm going to have >to nuke exFAT on this USB stick. At the moment I'm using it only for >small audio files, but I want to move them to my phone, so ext* won't >work. I'll just format

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:28:58 -0400 Tomas Kuchta dijo: >If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the >latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that >to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat >without hassle. I had

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread King Beowulf
On 6/10/21 4:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I just received today a new 1TB USB drive with a USB 3.0 Type A plug on > one end and a Type C plug on the other. I plugged it into one of the > Type C ports on my Thinkpad and discovered that it is formatted 'Win95 > FAT32.' > >... Unless you

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread Tomas Kuchta
If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat without hassle. -T On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 14:41 John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue,

[PLUG] Still having issues with grub-pc

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
About a year ago, at the end of a dist-update (not an upgrade, just the usual updates) the Update Manager GUI application announced that it was unable to configure grub-pc. The problem remains. I can install or remove packages, but at the end I always get an error message that grub-pc could not be

Re: [PLUG] exFAT v. FAT32

2021-06-17 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter dijo: >Both FAT32 and exFat lack permissions. >FAT32 max file size is 4gb. exFat max file size is 16*EB*. >Only back in January did gparted get the ability to format to exFAT. >(gparted 1.2.0+ using exfatprogs) exFAT is not open source and the