Microsoft righted an age-old “wrong” (at least for those who geek out about disk formatting) earlier this week. With its latest Windows 11 Insider Canary Preview Build, the company increased the maximum FAT32 partition size limit from 32GB to 2TB when using the command line.
  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love how the arstechnica article words it like you will never need FAT32 and it’s silly to consider it.

    I had to download fat32format I don’t know how many times because I needed to format an extra large SD Card or USB drive for some device. Microsoft really shafted exFAT’s adoption with their licensing.

    • Moin@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yep, many smart TVs still only accept FAT32 format. I have to split my HDR videos into multiple files to be able to watch them on TV — because of 4GiB size limit.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I personally haven’t had to touch it in over a decade, but I guess there’s probably some uses for it still, yeah.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      FAT32 is also really simple to implement. Supporting exFAT may require a larger microcontroller with more memory, which results in a more expensive product.