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exFAT is new, and actually quite different from FAT32/16/12. If I recall correctly it has things like extents, xattrs, and support for files >2GB. The only rea
by cbhl 13y ago
exFAT is new, and actually quite different from FAT32/16/12. If I recall correctly it has things like extents, xattrs, and support for files >2GB.
The only reason to use exFAT is if you need a filesystem that can be accessed from both Windows and Mac OS X. If you only need Windows, then use ntfs-3g. If you only need Mac OS X, then use HFS.
- ajross 13y agoexfat is also the default filesystem on Android devices for large (>32G maybe?) SDXC cards. It has clear advantages over FAT on huge filesystems, though this is excruciatingly annoying as it's easy to forget to format it wrong by accident and end up with a filesystem I can't read from my Linux machine. What use is removable media without a universally recognized format?
- cbhl 13y agoThat's because exFAT is mandated by the SDXC specification, whereas SD only required FAT [citation needed]. Presumably, the original reason the exFAT driver was written in the first place was to enable Android devices to read SDXC cards.