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File system for multiboot drive

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I have created a multiboot USB drive using YUMI (multiboot installer). On it, I have a variety of different bootable tools, including Ubuntu with a persistent file, Windows Vista/7/8 40-in-1 multi installer (so basically it is like a boot disk but for every version of windows between vista and 8), and a whole load of linux-based and probably linux-based diagnostic & recovery tools (memtest86+ etc). FAT32 would be the obvious file system for this, mainly due to its compatibility, but the file size limit of ~4GiB makes it impossible because the windows installer has a file which is 7.9GiB, and so doesn't work when I try to put it on FAT32. I have installed it on an NTFS formatted drive now (including updating to the latest version of ubuntu), but now it just restarts when I tell ubuntu to boot as a live usb. Is this an issue with my installation of ubuntu, or does it dislike being installed on NTFS. If that is the case, what file system would you suggest?

Note: other bootable tools seem to be functioning, and the windows installer works.

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Did you try using exFAT? It doesn't have the same 4GB file restriction as FAT32.

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Did you try using exFAT? It doesn't have the same 4GB file restriction as FAT32.

I have looked into it, but my main restriction is that somewhere that I looked (ubuntu forums?), it said that ubuntu doesn't like exFAT. I will give it a go though.

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exFAT simply doesn't work unfortunately :'(

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