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Why yes, I would in fact like to write a file bigger than 4GB in 2025. Com'on flash drive manufacturers, get your shit together and format in exFAT already -_- (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[-] passepartout@feddit.org 19 points 22 hours 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.

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 16 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 17 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

[-] mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 6 points 21 hours ago

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.