USB-Automount (FAT) / error while writing file with special characters

[Steffen premium]

Steffen premium

7. November 2015 at 21:21 #16805

Hi,

trying to write files with special characters (like german umlauts ä, ö, ü) on auto-mounted USB to /media/usb0 leads to errors.

The USB-stick is formatted with fat32.

What Do I have to change to be able to write these files to the USB-stick?

Thank you in advance,

zerbes

EDIT: I tried with NTFS-formatted stick and it worked perfect.

• This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Steffen.
• This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by Steffen.

[flysurfer Moderator]

flysurfer Moderator

10. November 2015 at 18:39 #16837

Hi Zerbes,

to use special letters in FAT32 you need to add the iocharset parameter to the usbmount configuration. This is done in file /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf and the edited line looks like this:

FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,gid=users,uid=pi,iocharset=iso8859-1 \

[Steffen premium]

Steffen premium

11. November 2015 at 22:59 #16863

Thank you for your support!

Using NTFS-formatted stick it worked perfectly, maybe the mentioned parameters could be added in a future max2play-update to also be able to use FAT32-formatted-sticks from scratch? I don’t need it anymore, maybe others need it.

Kind regards

zerbes