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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

www.engadget.com

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Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

www.engadget.com

jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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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.
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    I personally haven’t had to touch it in over a decade, but I guess there’s probably some uses for it still, yeah.

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      Personal computers and flagship phones? Yeah you can probably use exFAT.

      Video game consoles and handhelds? Dashcams? Car entertainment centers? Cheap android devices? 100% going to be FAT32 partitioned with a Master Boot Record

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        Low end motherboard BIOS flashing

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          I just flashed my mobo last night and it wanted a fat32 fs. It’s not low-end at all.

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          You think high end motherboards are going to flash from XFS?

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            I’ve seen a few that can read ExFAT

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        Yup, I had to download a program to format my 64Gb micro SD card for my 3ds last year.

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        I needed it for a printer the other day!

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