[kwlug-disc] Flash drive filesystem for Linux AND Windows

[Paul Nijjar]

Well that was an education. My impression was that exFAT was
proprietary and patented and not available to the FLOSS world. It
looks like it is still patented but now it is in Linux somehow?

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/

(from Uncle Wikipedia citation)

- Paul

On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 01:02:20PM -0400, Jason Eckert wrote:
> I use exFAT for this - it's the latest and greatest FAT from Microsoft that
> supports large files (e.g. USB hard drives).
> You just need to install exfat-utils and fuse-exfat.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 12:34 PM R. Brent Clements <rbclemen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I don't recall ever having a problem with files starting with a dot on a
> > Windows machine.  I have had lots of problems with folders whose name ends
> > with a dot on Windows.
> > FAT32 formatted USB keys are fine as long as the file attributes don't
> > need to be conserved, which is usually the case if Windows is the
> > destination.  The dotfiles will not be hidden of course by default
> >
> > Brent
> >
> > On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 12:20, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
> > kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I have to transfer some files via USB from Linux to Windows. One
> >> option is to use FAT32. Is there something better I can use?
> >>
> >> I guess the Linux->Windows transfers will probably be okay (except for
> >> dotfiles?), but going the other way is not so nice.
> >>
> >> - Paul
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