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You're also forgetting about exFAT which is also supported with full r/w on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Personally, I've got a partition with exFAT so I can tra
by qmarchi 9y ago
You're also forgetting about exFAT which is also supported with full r/w on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Personally, I've got a partition with exFAT so I can transfer data between everything on my drives...
- donatj 9y agoI keep all my external drives ExFAT so I can use them easily everywhere.
- terminalcommand 9y agoExFAT can be problematic due to corruption. I used to have an external HDD formatted to ExFAT plugged in on my raspberry pi. When crashes occured whilst having torrent open, the disk never fully recovered. I had to constantly run repairs. For small drives e.g. USB sticks ExFAT is great but for larger drives I'd stay away from ExFAT.
- glenneroo 9y agoMy own anecdota: I haven't experienced this ever with exFat on 20+ USB Flash/HDD drives and I regularly experience crashing Raspberry Pi's (Raspbian OS) and various flavors of Windows.
- B1FF_PSUVM 9y agoMicrosoft's own OneDrive refuses to use ExFat volumes, as of last year.
- terminalcommand 9y agoExfat is also painful to use in OpenBSD. There is something called exfatfuse but it is quite buggy. The only way I could make USB drives that were usable on other machines was to use fat32 with mkfs.msdos. OTOH NTFS read support is excellent on both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. But overall I admit that it is painful if you need to work with USB drives.
- jandrese 9y agoRead support is fine, write support varies from nonexistent to merely crippled. One implementation allows you to write to NTFS only in the case where you were overwriting existing bits in a file, and even that was buggy.