Windows 10 Choosing the Right File System for Pen Drives: FAT32 vs. exFAT

[Peterr]

Is fat 32 acceptable for most pen drives.
I have read that exFat is also a choice; is it true?

 

[nmsuk]

depends on the capacity of the drive.

 

[Neemobeer]

fat32 and exfat are fairly similar for compatibly use exfat.

 

[ussnorway]

yes I would go exfat if you want to jump from Windows to some other system... just be aware of the size limits and stay under 2g

 

[nmsuk]

exfat does large volumes greater than 2gb, I have my 64gb formatted to it for my windows installs

 

[Peterr]

Thank you all-good thing for alerts as I never got an email. better check my settings.

 

[Joey1394]

I dual-boot between Windows-10 and a Linux OS. So I don't use exFAT, because Linux doesn't support it. It comes with restrictive license which doesn't allow open-source operating system to implement it natively.

Linux has no problems with NTFS, so I format my usb-sticks with it.