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
    2 years

    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.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2 years

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

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 years

        FAT32 is the java of file systems. Works everywhere, on anything. But everyone hates it.