seekerlosa.blogg.se - Disk format that works for mac and windows

I used it for flash drives, SD cards and external USB disks, and I'm happy with it. Most distros provide packages to install a FUSE implementation that works fine and flawlessly. Anyways, once you install it, the system will be able to mount or unmount it using normal mechanisms. Unfortunately, patents on exFAT prevent to include it in mainline Linux kernel, so you need to manually install an implementation of exFAT to add support for it in your system. So even if you don't think to need it, maybe you already have one or more devices using it or ready for it.

With SDXC cards exFAT became the standard for SD and micro SD cards with storage bigger than 32 GB, so one can expect support for it in most recent cameras, camcorders, smartphones and game consoles.

It's simple enough to be fast (unlike NTFS) and reliable (unlike FAT32).

It supports almost any unicode character in file and directory names (unlike FAT32

It supports large disks and big file systems without wasting space, and supports files bigger than 4GB (unlike FAT32).

It doesn't support permissions and ownership of files (unlike ext2/3/4, NTFS and HFS+), and it's a good thing, since they can be very annoying on a flash drive that you often connect to several, different, computers.

It works in RW everywhere (unlike NTFS, that's supported read only on Mac OSX), it's included in Windows since Windows XP and in Mac OSX since Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and afaik all the GNU/Linux distros out there includes packages for it in default repos.Įven Android devices, iOS devices (iPhones and iPads), and some smart TVs support it as of year 2017.

The limits really are from 2TB to 16TB for cluster sizes 512B to 4KB for FAT32 (also mentioned on the wikipage)." " the maximum size depends on the selected cluster size.

They are one of the simplest ways of sharing files between machines.Įdit: Thank you for correction: let me write one of comments here: Use Dropbox or something through network. Thanks first partition of your flash memory, you can easily read/write from whatever OS, because of programms you have stored at your FAT32 partition of your flash memory.įorget using a flash drive. Try to imagine you have 4GB flash memory.ġ) FAT32 with freeware portable applications to access all other FS types.Ģ) Universal partition, which can be whatever you want - NTFS, ReiserFS (if you want real security and encryption) or whatever. Linux since version 2.6.xy has no more problems with NTFS, but Mac OS does.Maybe you could make more partitions at your flash, but this is actualy not great solution. There is no other compatible possibility.