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

[Walt Mankowski]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 05:18:17PM +0100, 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.

It was several years ago when I last needed to do this. From what I
recall it was a PITA to format the drive on Linux. That wasn't a
problem for me, since I had a Windows box I wanted to use the drive on
anyway, so I formatted it there. I continue to use the drive on Linux,
macOS, and Windows and I've never had a problem reading and writing
files.

> If possible prefer ext4!

Agreed, but that's only really practical if you're only going to use
it on Linux.

Walt