Re: SanDisk USB stick problem
On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 20:34 +0000, Joe wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:23:44 -0500
> Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[...]
> > Interesting. I haven't been using automounting, but I just enabled
> > Xfce's native automounting (Thunar / Edit / Preferences / Advanced
> > /
> > Volume Management:Configure / Mount removable drives when hot-
> > plugged)
> > and stuck in a flash drive. It gets mounted and I don't see any
> > FUSE
> > involved:
> >
> > ~$ mount | grep sdb
> > /dev/sdb on /media/<username>/disk type vfat
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,c
> > odepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,err
> > ors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
> >
> > ~$ mount | grep fuse
> > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) portal on /run/user/1000/doc type
> > fuse.portal (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
> >
> > I'm curious about this because I can't imagine that FUSE
> > performance
> > is as good as native, so why would automounters pay the performance
> > penalty of FUSE when native mounting would seem easy enough to do?
> >
>
> With a quick trial, it depends on the filesystem. Many of my USB
> sticks
> are FAT for portability, but they get mounted as fuseblk rather than
> fat or vfat.
How are you mounting them? On Buster with LXDE desktop, USB sticks with
FAT filesystems don't get mounted by the GUI using fuse. I.e. my
experience matches Celejar's.
> Linux partitions are indeed mounted natively.
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by 'Linux partitions'. The only
two partitioning schemes I'm aware of are MBR and GPT neither of which
are Linux specific. And I can't see how the partitioning scheme would
affect how a FAT filesystem is mounted.
--
Tixy
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