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@rdk45

I formatted it on Windows 10 as FAT and OSMC command line “ cat /ect/fstab ” it as vfat.

VFAT could be one of the problematic filesystems

Unable to transfer large files from Windows 10 to USB attached drive over SAMBA

The issue seems to be a combination of NTFS (or vfat/exfat) formatted drive, being shared with Samba, and copying to that share using Windows Explorer. I first encountered this problem a couple of years ago on Windows 7 but was not able to make any real headway on the exact cause or a solution. To me it seems to be a limitation or compatibility issue between the Samba server and certain types of underlying filesystem, since it doesn’t happen with ext4 formatted drives, which are of course nati…

@rdk45

I was a bit surprised that OSMC command line did not recognize “ lsusb ” command?

Nothing to be suprized, it doesn’t make sense to install all those tools by default.
sudo apt-get install usbutils will provide it.