On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter <vince.win...@freegeek.org> 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 >code for it was only relatively recently released by microsoft. Linux >Kernel 5.4 added it natively. > >Check software versions and try gparted again >or > >sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn Since I now have a very slightly newer kernel I decided to try GParted again to see what it can do. I plugged the 1TB USB drive into the computer, and the problematic 128GB drive was already plugged in, transferring files. Then I launched GParted, and that was 15 minutes ago, and right now it's still saying 'scanning all devices.' In the past it always took a few moments to scan all the devices, but never anything like this. I suspect that it is hanging on the problem 128GB drive. And all its buttons are grayed out until it finishes, so I'd have to use some apt command to get the current version. Wait ... it finally found the problem drive, but it has more to go. Maybe by tomorrow morning it'll have everything figured out. No! It finally finished. Ah, well for the new 1TB drive (where I had already created a partition, left unformatted), the option to format exfat is still grayed out. And GParted is version is 1.0.0. Since I now know the new 1TB drive is /dev/sdc I'll just use the command you mentioned on the command line.
