questions re: usb drive. fat32, linux file system

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Nils Kassube schreef op 20-06-2017 7:07:
> John R. Sowden wrote:
>> Most USB sticks seem to be formatted with FAT32, probably because
>> enough ms windows users have not discovered linux yet.
> 
>> I use Lijnux primarily, so I want to format the USB sticks to a Linux
>> file system. Q4: Is this recommended?
>> 
>> Q5: Which is the best file system for USB sticks?
> 
> It depends - if you want to use the USB stick on other peoples machines
> as well, you should use a file system known to Windows because there is
> no ext2/3/4 fs support in Windows (AFAIK). However I wouldn't use FAT32
> but NTFS because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GiB. If you only want
> to use the USB stick with Linux, you might as well use ext2/3/4.

No.

Use exFAT.

exFAT has support for large files and has much better write performance 
than NTFS on Linux.

It is compatible with MacOS 10.6.5 too.

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