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Why yes, I would in fact like to write a file bigger than 4GB in 2025. Com'on flash drive manufacturers, get your shit together and format in exFAT already -_- (lemmy.world)

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 44 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Literally everything with USB can read FAT32, there's some old or incredibly simple stuff out there that doesn't read exFAT.

Manufacturers ideally want to spend as little as possible handling support for users, so they go with the option that isn't going to result in returns from people who think it doesn't work with their old printer or whatever.

[–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Updated some recent Gigabyte mini-pc using EFI shell the other month. I had to have a USB flash drive with FAT32

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Same with my JBL party box speakers, probably most audio gear with USB interfaces.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I have a client that does HVAC work who needed help preparing a 128GB flash drive for loading firmware onto high end thermostats. Quickly ran the command to format as FAT32 because that's what the thermostats require (and he indicated the firmware files would exceed the 32GB limit in the GUI)

[–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Are you formatting it using the windows disk manager? Any 3rd party tool will allow you to go above the 32GB limit.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 4 hours ago

The client was, so I ran the command for them to format the full 128GB as FAT32

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 13 hours ago

I've had smart TVs that only updates with fat32 formatted USBs for firmware, for a concrete example.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plus exfat has a LOT of caveats. Like no linking....

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

Could make it f2fs, but I'd bet Windows doesn't support that.