• passepartout@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    Recently tried to make a printer scan a file to an exFAT formatted thumb drive, didn’t go well. Then tried moving a file from a windows to a linux machine using another exFAT formatted thumb drive, still no luck lol.

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      6 days ago

      I get the impression that ext4 is more widely supported than exFAT.

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        Lol nah, exFAT is the only current FS (other than fat32) capable of being read AND written to by Linux, MacOS and Windows out of the box

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          It’s supported by Linux, Windows, MacOS, and all of the embedded devices with a firmware written by organizations that give a damn.

          But somehow, ext4 passes under the radar and gets into nearly every embedded device.

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        It certainly should be. And as we’re on it, Mainboards should support it too. It’s a pain to create special partitions, and sometimes even use MBR instead of GPT, just for a BIOS update.