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I got a 2TB external NVME drive. Using Clonezilla on a Live USB, I want to clone my internal Ubuntu drive to this external drive. See here https://i.sstatic.net/JdYDr.jpg Red exclamation point on EFI FAT32 partition. How to fix?

I ran the Gparted “Check” command on this FAT32 EFI partition and the results came back all green/good, but the red exclamation point is still there.

Can I ignore this error warning? I don’t need to or plan to connect this external drive to a Windows pc. .- .- enter image description here

Advait
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If you right click on the FAT32 partition and click on 'Information' in the menu which pops up, you will probably see:

! Warning:
Unable to read the contents of this file system!
Because of this some operations may be unavailable.
The cause might be a missing software package.
The following list of software packages is required for fat32 file
system support:  dosfstools, mtools.

At least this is what I often get; e.g. on current Ubuntu installation USBs, dosfstools is present but mtools is not.

So sudo apt install mtools fixes the issue.

MikeBeaton
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