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crashandburn4

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Registered: 2013-03-03

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[SOLVED]Should inserting a hard drive be able to crash arch?

I have an exfat formatted hard drive with a bunch of files from mac and windows computers. My arch system has exfat-utils & fuse-exfat installed. as soon as I plug the exfat formatted hard-drive in the computer will no longer function. running iotop before I plug it in doesn't show anything unnexpected.

Last edited by crashandburn4 (2014-12-31 13:03:12)

t0m5k1

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Re: [SOLVED]Should inserting a hard drive be able to crash arch?

I have had similar problems with exfat & after fighting with exfat for a while I just gave up & moved back to fat32.
I know this can be a shlep/pita but you get less headaches & no need for a driver in the end.

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bjornoslav

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Re: [SOLVED]Should inserting a hard drive be able to crash arch?

Use FAT32 if you have files less than 4 GiB (or if you split them in smaller files, RAR for example), or NTFS for any size of files.

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crashandburn4

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Re: [SOLVED]Should inserting a hard drive be able to crash arch?

Thanks everyone.

crashandburn4

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Re: [SOLVED]Should inserting a hard drive be able to crash arch?

Forgot to note, this was fixed by changing the usb port that the external hard drive was plugged into (!!!). no idea what was happening here but just forgot about it after a while, marking solved.