[CALUG] moving files between linux and windows

[Bryan Smith]

Built-in Windows tools will not create a FAT32 file system larger than
32GiB (33.8GB).  Are you sure it's not creating exFAT (64-bit FAT)?
[1]

Windows also doesn't like larger than 128GiB (137GB).  The theoretical
limit of FAT32 is 8TiB, but I seriously doubt most Windows systems
prefer that.

That all said ...

For removable/portable USB devices, I highly recommend Rufus.  Rufus
is the only tool I use for making anything I'm going to use with
Windows, and especially for creating Windows 7, 8.x and 10 uEFI
installation media.

- bjs

[1] http://wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

[2] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Howard <how0909 at freeshell.org> wrote:
> So your saying when you format the drive fat32 in windows it reads ok on the
> centos but then after having in the centos the win7 barfs and you have to
> reformat?
> And your centos file manglers don't see ntfs well?
> Did you try command line?
>
> Screw the gui stuff.
> I had a bad experience last year when I tried copying a good size tree from
> a fedora to an external hard drive. It stopped after about 1/8 and I though
> it did it all. Never looked for myself and then dumped the fedora install
> and when I went to use my backed up stuff found out I lost a major portion.
> Some really important. I'll never do that again!
> Try the command line and at least do a du when done.
> Howard():
>
> On 11/06/2017 07:24 PM, Walt Smith wrote:
>>
>> Windows
>> Format will do fat32 and try 16kb sector size -- Linux writes ok
>> But windows barfs. gain, if
>>   you tried...




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