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Enabling SSH access with an NTFS partition doesn't work #2970

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The "Debugging the Home Assistant Operating System" page (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/operating-system/debugging/) states:

Use a USB drive with a partition named CONFIG (case sensitive) formatted as FAT, ext4, or NTFS.

I have a 64GB USB drive so Windows by defaults formats the drive using NTFS, no big deal, the documentation states it should be supported. However after trying ha os import and rebooting multiple times I decided to shrink the partition from ~55GB to ~12GB and format it again with FAT32. Then I copied the file in the drive again and plugged into the Raspberry Pi 5.

After running ha os import again the SSH connection started working immediately.

I'm not sure if it is because NTFS is not supported or because the partition was too big, but it would be nice to update the docs to mention this.

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