[Solved] What format for large capacity USB devices?

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Hi All,

 

What is the current consensus on formatting large capacity USB 3.0 devices?  Is FAT32 still the go to?

 

Context:

• 64GB 3.0 usb drive
• Likely to be used across Linux, Android, and Windows(Rarely) 
• Will be used to store files under 4GB

Many Thanks,

 

Update: Formatted the drive to Fat32

[Kastley]

yessir

[BobVonBob]

FAT32 and exFAT work across the three operating systems, although exFAT needs some extra packages to work on Linux. Basically if you're certain you'll never need a 4 GB file then FAT32 is the way to go. Other options could be making multiple partitions, which would allow you to use multiple file systems, although Windows would only mount the first one.

 

This is the thing that really annoys me about USB drives these days, there's been no format that everything accepts since FAT32, which is really limiting.