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[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Note that some devices aren't able to correctly mount the second partition.

I guess this is because the first partition is used to boot ventoy, while the second partition holds data and some devices (e.g. printers) won't mount the second partition.

PS: I nearly wasn't able to hold a presentation because of this, luckily a second stick/phone/copy on web storage saved me, iirc.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

This only ever really applies to devices without UIs or otherwise embedded OSs, and personally I wouldn’t trust a drive with more than a handful of files in such a device anyway.