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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Strange FAT filesystem Post 302674837 by HJarausch on Friday 20th of July 2012 12:56:34 PM
Old 07-20-2012
Strange FAT filesystem
My Garmin GPS device has a slot for an SD card. I'm using a 32 GB SD card which holds 22 GB data currently.

If I attach my device to a USB port it shows two devices, the internal memory and the SD card. I have no problems with the internal memory which holds only 2 GB of data.

I can mount both as a FAT32 system, but listing (ls) the large SD card based file system shows only rubbish (many question marks and dots).
Fdisk is telling me, it's a FAT32 partition.

BUT, when I start Windows7 under Virtualbox on the very same hardware, I can list the device just fine and CHKDSK doesn't find any errors. And Windows claims it's a FAT32 system.

I've even tried to execute mount.exfat-fuse but it cannot find an exfat file system.

Has anybody an idea what's going on?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.
 

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