If you are running ubuntu LTS not the latest incarnation - download the latest ISO boot from it to liveOS (they call it Try Ubuntu) - use that to format with exFat - hopefully that is new enough to support exFat without hassle.
-T On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 14:41 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
