On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:43:12 -0700 Vince Winter <[email protected]> dijo:
>Both FAT32 and exFat lack permissions. >FAT32 max file size is 4gb. exFat max file size is 16*EB*. >Only back in January did gparted get the ability to format to exFAT. >(gparted 1.2.0+ using exfatprogs) exFAT is not open source and the >code for it was only relatively recently released by microsoft. Linux >Kernel 5.4 added it natively. > >Check software versions and try gparted again >or > >sudo mkfs.exfat -n LABEL /dev/sdXn > >If you need help let me know. :) Thanks for the above. Apparently I misread the maximum file size as 16GB, not 16EB. So one of my objections has disappeared. However, GParted still shows the option to format exFAT as grayed out. But I swear I previously used GParted to format a 128GB drive as exFAT, where the partition where it was grayed out is 1TB. I wonder if the partition size is what GParted has a problem with. But I also have a problem with the 128GB partition, which is on a USB stick. I have been using this drive continuously lately as I am working with my MP3 collection. When I drag and drop a file with any of my several GUI file managers the action is not instantaneous as it is when I do so on ext4 partitions. That is, about half the time it is instantaneous, but the rest of the time it takes several minutes. And we're talking about files that are only 10-50MB. There are two folders on this drive 'New' and 'Finished,' and this morning I wanted to duplicate two files (23MB and 30MB) on New to Finished. It took 32 minutes. Both folders were on the same exFAT partition (the 128GB USB drive). For kicks and giggles I deleted the copies and then tried the same copy operation from the command line. Same results. Then I copied the files from one of the exFAT folders to an ext4 folder, and it still took 32 minutes. But when I then copied the files from the ext4 folder to another ext4 folder the copy operation happened instantly. The literature says exFAT is supposed to be faster than FAT32. I wonder if there is a bug with exFAT on Linux, since it has been added to the kernel very recently.
