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

[Jason Eckert]

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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