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Hi

It is exists exFAT support (r/o and r/w ) under Linux
I tried to format SSD drive for BMCC to exFAT under linux, but no luck - drive not recognized by camera.
Is it exists any tipo how to correctly partitioning/format drive for BMCC under Linux?

I haven't tried this but you could look into the exFAT Fuse driver

https://code.google.com/p/exfat/

Thanks, i already installed fuse-exfat support and utils, and tried to partitioning ssd drive by several ways , but drive not recognized by BMCC, and same time worked properly under linux. exFAT partition recognized only if i format drive under Macos (haven't tried Win format yet). So question generally - what partitioning/format scheme and parameters should be under linux in order to exFAT formatted ssd recognized by BMCC.
TIA

You need a GPT label (partition table) on the disk. Create 1 primary partition to fill the entire space and then format it to exfat. This can all be done using gparted. Formatting can also be accomplished using mkfs.exfat.

I'm using Ubuntu and the exfat fuse driver works beautifully .

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sudo -s
gdisk /dev/sdsomething
n
enter (uses default partition number 1)
enter (uses default start)
enter (uses default end)
enter (uses default parititon id code)
w (writes to disk and exits)

then
mkfs.extfat /dev/something1


thnx
but

What actual partition type shoul be? (gdisk uses as default last used partition code - in my case it is 0x8300, Linux partition , which not recognized by BMCC). Also i tried to set MS partition "0x0700" - no luck.

Also - what start sector number should be? (default in my case is 2048)

Im using RedHat/Centos 6.3