> > I bought a USB flash drive and was wondering what filesystem I should be > using on it. > > I think it is formatted as exFAT but am not sure. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks :) > > > Ian > > >
> PS: > > FAT32 is also good to share data on Linux machines, between different > user IDs. If you really want to temporarily store xattrs and privileges > you could use a tar archive on the FAT32 formatted USB stick. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:45:58 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> > To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [lubuntu-users] USB flash drive filesystem > Message-ID: <20190801224558.2c785a04@archlinux> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > PPS: > > FAT32: > > max. file size 4 GiB, max. volume size is 16 TiB > > When not using FAT32: > > > Ian, et al: Not to be "argumentative" but . . . considering that most operating system installs are going to be larger than 4GB, the "exFAT" option seems like the just fine decision for the base formatting. Of course if you are going to try an install on the drive then you will be formatting it via the installer to something like "ext4" or what have you. Then the "exFAT v FAT32" decision is . . . somewhat "moot." It something that obviously can easily be changed or re-done, numerous times in the life of the drive. F
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