![]() ![]() It is supported on Windows, Macs and Linux and it supports very large files and very large partitions, so millions of files is no problem. I had to add the ‘umask=0’ magic word to the options there to make it work, like this: /dev/sda1 /media/DRIVE exfat rw,exec,umask=0 0 0ĮxFAT, which is patented by MicroSoft is a good file system for external drives (USB sticks, SDD and HDD USB drives, etc…). This version of that entry would allow me to read the files via Samba from other PCs but not to write to it: /dev/sda1 /media/DRIVE exfat rw,exec 0 0 ![]() I finally figured out that my entry in the Rasbpian OS’ /etc/fstab file entry for the external drive needed to be adjusted. So I struggled and struggled with this for a few hours, until my Aha! moment. I had this setup with my previous NTFS drive so I assumed it would just work for the new drive. I need to be able to copy files onto the drive from across the network, from Windows PCs. Setting it up was easy enough and I had my music server (CherryMusic) and my Plex media server pointed at and reading the drive in no time. Out of the box, the new 3 TB drive came formatted with the exFAT file system. I just recently had to replace an older external USB hard drive connected to my Raspberry Pi (Model 3 B) with a new one. ![]()
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