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Connecting/Mounting USB Flash Drive formated with XFS file system to the Router (ax12 rax120)
Hello Folks,
I have Nighthawk AX12 RAX12v2. USB port have been used to share drives in the network, typically usb flash drives formated with vfat/fat32 or exfat are used (I believe I have us...
Never mind, I figured out the nature of the issue. A basic configuration thing on the router.
Note: The post above starting with "Never mind" was a mistake. I have requested to be removed but it wasn't removed. The issue is pending.
Also, it seems that the router have a hard time identify any USB flash drive that was formatted with linux formatting tools (mkfs). The linux formatting tools follows the standards and are disks formated with mkfs using file systems of the type vfat/fat32, exfat, and ntfs are recognized by any windows machine, so the fact that it can not be recognized by this router is really odd. Moreover, partitions formated with XFS file system simply are not recognized by the router either.
It seems that the router likely uses some small customized version of linux and the fact that it can not recognize disks formatted with a linux tool is ludicrous.