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Re: Initial state of drive found by xorriso.

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On 5/14/26 10:26 AM, peter@easthope.ca wrote:

> From: "Thomas Schmitt"<scdbackup@gmx.net>
> Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 10:01:05 +0200
>
>> How much storage capacity does it offer ?
> Nominally 500 GB; significantly larger than other drives in the
> system.
>
> Rebooted since composing the orginal message.  Currently the drive is sdf.
> Image from Gparted here.https://easthope.ca/LaCieGparted.jpg
>
>> The emerging ISO would occupy 2258784 "CD data sectors" of 2048 bytes
>> each (4412 MiB)) whereas the medium offers only 951368 * 2048 bytes
>> of remaining capacity (1868 MiB).
>
If in fact your iso file is much over 4GB in size and you're trying to 
write to FAT32 media, you will get "exceeds free space" errors due to 
the FAT32 file size limitation.

You might try other partition formats. For media that will be used 
strictly on linux, ext4 seems a good choice.

If I also need to use with a proprietary os I tend to use NTFS which has 
caused me headaches of its own from time to time.

A while back someone informed me XFAT is the way to go for multi-os 
compatibility without FAT32's file size limitation. I have not recently 
tried that, so that is still an open question on my part: is exfat a 
good choice for replacing fat32? I could answer this for myself if I 
took the time.

background:
I recall trying out xfat a long time ago and it had proved incompatible 
with the device I wanted to use the storage media with, so exfat dropped 
out of my interest...

nwe

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