Storing big (bigger than 4GiB) files on a USB flash drive

Bret Busby bret at busby.net
Sat Nov 27 16:28:49 UTC 2021


On 28/11/21 12:18 am, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:54:22 -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
>> I reformatted it as exfat
> 
> If possible don't use exfat, it's a PITA to use by Linux
> installs, consider to follow the hints provided by Robert Heller.
> 

I have a a few Samsung T5 external USB SSD's, which are formatted in 
exFAT (they come formatted in that file format), and, so far, I have had 
no problems writing to them, and reading from them, including using the 
file managers PCManFM and Caja (Mate file manager).

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