Seagate Expansion USB drives are not auto mounted

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This seems to be the feature making the difference.

I don’t know a tool within ubuntu/debian to remove this feature from an existing ext4 filesystem unless you reformat that partition.

Perhaps, the pragmatic solution is:

  1. copy the data of such disk A to another disk B
  2. recreate the ext4 file system on disk A using the VeroV or any Linux device not using this extended attribute feature ea_inode
  3. copy back the data from disk B to disk A

Perhaps, others can share ideas to prevent any large copy action.

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