When I go to Gparted and try to format my pendrive to exfat,the option is greyed out and I am not able to select it however I can choose other file systems such as ext4,ntfs,etc.  Why is that ?
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I have an microSD card with 64GB capacity which has exFAT file system. If I insert it to my card reader, it is mounted automatically. But I am looking for a command to format the card. I installed exfat-fuse and exfat-utils, but could not find proper command to format my microSD card.
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So, basically I always format my removable mass storage devices as NTFS by default, but someone told me I was better off using exFAT. Now I've been looking around google, but can't find any good reasons why I should.  Is there anything that exFAT does (better) which NTFS doesn't which is useful when using it for (>4GB) removable mass storage?
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I can't format my pendrive (where ubuntu was loaded as live-usb) . Whenever I do , they say .  This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; please reinitialize layout of the whole device. (udisks-error-quark, 11)  What to do ? I use Disks in Ubuntu 16.04
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When I format a drive to NTFS under Windows and plug it into the Ubuntu machine it is perfectly usable, but when I format it under Ubuntu using Disks (delete all partitions and create one single partition with NTFS) it does not show up when plugged into the Windows machine. Please note that in both cases the USB drive contains only one, primary partition formatted to NTFS, for example: /dev/sdb - the actual device /dev/sdb1 - the only, primary partition I've observed this behaviour both with a solid state USB pen-drive as well as an external USB magnetic HDD. How to (re)format a USB HDD or a stick to NTFS under Ubuntu so it is usable under Windows?
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When I use  app in  to format an external drive, I do not see the new  offered as a choice of format.  Does it matter that my external drive is a  Portable External Hard Drive plugged into a  via USB-3 cable? I know APFS is optimized for solid-state storage, so does Disk Utility not offer it for a spinning-metal disk drive?  ➥ Why is APFS not offered by Disk Utility?
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Just a quick question, is NTFS supported on El Capitan? I just plugged in my external hard drive and I am able to copy stuff from it, but not write to it. I guess only read mode is supported?
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Until recently both my Windows Partition (C:) and my Data Partition (E:) would mount as read/write. Now both seem to only mount as read-only.    GParted Resize (Error)  ntfsresize v2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0) Device name : /dev/sda4 NTFS volume version: 3.1 Cluster size : 4096 bytes Current volume size: 86207623680 bytes (86208 MB) Current device size: 86207627264 bytes (86208 MB) New volume size : 78662066688 bytes (78663 MB) Checking filesystem consistency ... Accounting clusters ... Space in use : 62126 MB (72.1%) Collecting resizing constraints ... Needed relocations : 1606868 (6582 MB) Schedule chkdsk for NTFS consistency check at Windows boot time ... Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while) Relocating needed data ... ERROR: Extended record needed (1032 &gt; 1024), not yet supported! Please try to free less space.   chkdsk Output:     Checking file system on E: The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is Data.  A disk check has been scheduled. Windows will now check the disk.                            99482 file records processed.   495 large file records processed.                        0 bad file records processed.                            0 EA records processed.                                  0 reparse records processed.                             104412 index entries processed.                          0 unindexed files processed.                             99482 security descriptors processed.                    2466 data files processed.                              CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...   4479208 USN bytes processed.                                      Usn Journal verification completed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.  84187132 KB total disk space.   60479688 KB in 69969 files.      15520 KB in 2467 indexes.          0 KB in bad sectors.     174336 KB in use by the system.      65536 KB occupied by the log file.   23517588 KB available on disk.       4096 bytes in each allocation unit.   21046783 total allocation units on disk.    5879397 allocation units available on disk.  Internal Info: 9a 84 01 00 00 1b 01 00 fc 1a 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 42 00 00 00 52 73 5c 77 b0 e7 1d 00 b0 df 1d 00  B...Rs\w........   fstab  # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # &lt;file system&gt; &lt;mount point&gt;   &lt;type&gt;  &lt;options&gt;       &lt;dump&gt;  &lt;pass&gt; proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0 # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=8213cc89-2438-41b9-899f-13b4c5b299af /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1 # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=45873767-d9ae-4f0c-baab-ffc2726ac24e none            swap    sw              0       0   Checked the drive in GParted, GSmartControl and with ntfsfix, all completed successfully, no change.  Partitions  dev/sda1 NTFS WinRE dev/sda2 NTFS Windows C: dev/sda3 Extended dev/sda4 NTFS Data E: dev/sda5 EXT4 Ubuntu dev/sda6 linux-swap    I am looking for an explanation of:    Internal Info: 9a 84 01 00 00 1b 01 00 fc 1a 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 42 00 00 00 52 73 5c 77 b0 e7 1d 00 b0 df 1d 00  B...Rs\w........   and    Resetting $LogFile ... (this might take a while) Relocating needed data ... ERROR: Extended record needed (1032 &gt; 1024), not yet supported! Please try to free less space.
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I have my /home on a BTRFS partition and I need to shrink it. Unfortunately, Gparted does not have the resize option for this FS. Can I resize it in any other way without losing my data?
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I unplugged my USB stick from Ubuntu 16.04 without the save remove option, but exfat should be fine doing so. No read write was happening, the partition does not use journaling. What I end up with is an unmountable USB stick with checksum error.   What tools are there to recover the partition table or at least the data on the USB stick? What I am doing now is scanning via parted. Has anyone experienced the same problem with exfat and recovery options? Unfortunately parted probably won't detect the partition because .  I also tried to use Partition Wizard on Windows but it failed to detect anything, just showing unallocated space. How do I proceed? are there helpful tools under Windows or Ubuntu?    I also tried to use gpart -v /dev/sdb but it failed to detect anything. On OS X there is a tool called fsck_exfat, is there any on Windows?  update The disk is preinstalled with Parted Magic. After quick search no partition shows up.
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I'm formatting a 1TB external hard drive as a single NTFS partition.  This drive is mainly meant for storing media.  Should I choose something other than the default allocation unit size?  The options range from 512 bytes to 64K.  Are there any guidelines that I should use with partitions storing other data?  Should I stop poking around and just leave it at "default"?
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I'm not sure what has happened, but I've all of a sudden lost write access to any of my NTFS external drives.   I installed a few games and apps from the software center, and now I can't make new folders or copy and paste files to anything that is NTFS. Everything is now read only, and I've tried so many things to fix it, but it seems hopeless.  Just to check if it wasn't the drives themselves, I made a little ntfs formatted truecrypt volume, and a fat formatted volume. And yes, it seems that Ubuntu is blocking me from writing anything to NTFS.   What happened here?  Whats a way I can simply get write access to my NTFS drives, so I can just backup all my stuff.  I'll probably reinstall Ubuntu. Please help.    UPDATE (and thanks everyone for their quick replies)  The problem has been solved.  Prior to noticing that I had lost NTFS write permission, I had installed GParted from the software center, and there was an extension called ntfsprogs that came with it.  During my search for a solution to the problem, I uninstalled GParted (as that was one of the apps I installed just before the problem). But that did not solve the problem.  I came across an app called 'NTFS Configuration Tool'. When I installed this, it said that the ntfsprogs extension needed to be removed (so I guess uninstalling GPARTED, didn't remove the ntfsprog extension).  I launched the NTFS Configuration Tool and now I have write access to NTFS drives. Unfortunately, I didn't check if I had write permission prior to launching the NTFS Configuration Tool, so I'm not sure whether the NTFS Configuration Tool, or the un-installation of ntfsprog gave me back NTFS write permission.   Hopefully if another newbee encounters this problem, they'll come across this page and know what to do.
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I'm encountering a problem with my HDD's partitions and can't resize it. I've described my problem and my system here: .  Now, from a more general perspective, I was thinking on whether it is possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD and use GParted in a live session to possibly go around that problem. Is that possible? I made a separate question as I'm interested in the possibility independently from my current problem.  You see, I only have one partition and that's mounted. When I use GParted through Ubuntu I don't get any error reports (unlike the case reported in the question linked above).  Thanks beforehand.
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These days, I have to use the NTFS-3G driver to write to an NTFS drive (which will later be used in Windows). But I still remember the olde times of Linux ntfs driver which clearly said in the docs: 'If you write to an ntfs volume, run our special program afterwards which will clean up the damage done.'  So, I read through the man, the docs, the Tuxera site and Askubuntu and found no discussion of the write-safety of NTFS-3G. The only thing that was mentioned somewhere is that the driver doesn't support the NTFS journal.  So, the question is, can I use NTFS-3G and be sure that I will later read what I have written to the files? Won't, for example, Windows find the journal entries missing and 'clean up' the data according to its own faulty understanding?
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When trying to mount an exfat filesystem, I get the following error:  Error mounting /dev/sda6 at /media/gkp/Backup: Command-line  `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda6" "/media/gkp/Backup"'  exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'   Exfat is used on some USB sticks and camera sd cards. What can I do to mount this type of filesystem?
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I'm very new to this and I've been at trying to fix this problem for about two hours to no avail.  I just finished getting my new computer put together and installed a new 2TB Seagate hard drive as a secondary drive (my boot drive has no problems at all). I have it formatted into two petitions, one in ext4 through GParted. I want to use this partition to store extra files and programs (specifically games and CAD stuff). I went to make a steam library folder in it and found that it's read only. It is at /dev/sda1  I first attempted to reformat it to no avail. I looked around for some help (most of what I found related to external storage) and tried a few things through the terminal to change the owner.  mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/   Returned "only root can do that."  I'm stuck past here, I've tried a couple other things I can't hunt down now, but every attempt gives an access problem to me. How can I change this and regain access? Are there more effective ways to map/install this drive for this purpose to avoid this problem in the future? Thank you!
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I have a really strange situation here. My PC works fine, at least in most cases, but there's one thing that I can't deal with. When I try to copy a file from my pendrive, everything is ok -- I got 16-19M/s , it works pretty well. But when I try to copy something to the same pendrive, my PC freezes. The mouse pointer stops moving for a sec or two, then it moves a little bit and it stops again. When something is playing, for example, in Amarok, the sound acts like a machine gun. The speed jumps from 500K/s to 15M/s, average 8M/s. This occurs only when I'm copying something to a pendrive. When the process of copying is done, everything backs to normal.   I tried everything -- other pendrive, a different USB port on front panel or those ports from back, I even changed the USB pins on motherboard (front panel), but no matter where I put my USB stick, it's always the same. I tried different filesystem -- fat32, ext4. I have no problem with the device on Windows, on my laptop. It has to be my PC or something in my system. I have no idea what to look for. I'm using Debian testing with standalone Openbox. My PC is kind of old -- Pentium D 3GHz, 1GiB of RAM, 1,5TB WD Green disk. If you have something that would help me to solve this issue, I'd be glad to hear that.  I don't know what else info I should provide, but if you need something, just ask, I'll update this post as soon as possible.  I tried to reproduce this problem on ubuntu 13.04 live cd. I mounted my encrypted partition + encrypted swap and connected my pendrive to a usb port. Next I tried to start some apps, and now I have ~820MiB in RAM and about 400MiB in SWAP. There's no problem with copying, no freezing at all, everything is as it should be. So, it looks like it's a fault of the system, but where exactly? What would cause such a weird behavior?
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After I used dd to make a USB drive from an Ubuntu ISO, I am unable to format it for normal use. I ran: sudo dd if=&quot;ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso&quot; of=&quot;/dev/sdb&quot; bs=4M  In order to create a bootable USB drive. However, after I was done with it, I wanted to format it as FAT32 and use it like a normal USB drive. No problem, should be easy, right? WRONG. I have tried:  Using the included Disks application to format it. It threw an error about corrupt GPT tables and wouldn't give me an override option. Using Gparted the erase the current partition table and write a new MBR table [completed successfully] After that I created a FAT32 partition spanning the entire volume, and remounted. [Showed up in Files, good so far] Attempted to copy a file to it. It thre an error saying the medium was read-only. Erased the partition table again in Gparted and this time created an NTFS partition spanning the entire disk. [Same RO error when attempting to copy a file onto it] Repeated the procedure trying this time with EXT4 [Same RO error] Repeated procedure trying a GTP table instead of an MBR table. {Same error]  Finally, I tried running: sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb  And remounted. Still the same error. Keep in mind that I remounted it after formatting it each time. I am at a total loss. Has dd bricked my USB drive?