[lubuntu-users] USB flash drive filesystem

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:09:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:47:33 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:  
>>I bought a USB flash drive and was wondering what filesystem I should
>>be using on it.
>>
>>I think it is formatted as exFAT but am not sure.
>>
>>Any ideas?    
>
>Usually they are FAT32 formatted. I usually stay with FAT32, so they
>are compatible to even very old Windows machines, my Roland guitar
>synth, DVB-T receivers, the BIOS ... briefly, when formatted with
>FAT32, they are compatible with everything.  

PS:

FAT32 is also good to share data on Linux machines, between different
user IDs. If you really want to temporarily store xattrs and privileges
you could use a tar archive on the FAT32 formatted USB stick.