[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to mount usb devices?

[Gary Mills]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:17:23PM +0200, Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> And why is it restricted to vfat ? External usb disks are factory
> formatted as ntfs, which is more suitable for OS-agnostics
> backups. Automatic mounting Exfat devices would also be useful.

Probably because of Microsoft patents and licence costs, I would
suspect.  You have to reformat those USB devices.  The FAT filesystem
is the only portable filesystem between OI and Windows.  You can
reformat them on Windows or OI.


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