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@Voxera The problem is fat32 only supports up to 4GB file size. I have files bigger than that. Its a 64GB jump drive.
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@Demolishun If you're having webpage files larger than 4gb you're finding strange web sites. The 4gb limit is for individual files. If your files are smaller than that, you should be fine.
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@powerfulparadox This is a sneakernet as mentioned in the post.
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@irene You misunderstood me. He was saying that he was moving lots of webpages (rippen on a computer with internet access) on a 16GB USB drive and was concerned about the 4GB file size limit, because he had more than 4GB of files to put on the drive. I, being the obtuse communicator that I am, picked a less obvious way to explain that that limit was per file and he should be fine with FAT32 for his use case. I understood (I think) exactly what he was saying.
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@Demolishun you could use zip to split files into chunks of less than 4GB, but unless your transferring large compressed structures, video files or databases I have a hard time picturing what kind of files that grow over 4GB.
Still, they could be split and if fat32 does solve the actual compatibility problem its a viable solution.
Fat32 can easily support drives up to 2 TB unless you use an old windows 2000 in which case the limit per partition is 32GB.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Been using a jump drive compiled as NTFS for my sneaker net. I copied some file to it from Ubuntu 18.04. I take to Windows machine and it says there are errors (does this a lot). Usually it works fine. The files I copied are not there. They were downloaded web pages as Windows machine is not on net. I noticed the file names have characters like #, ? and ` in them. So I reformat the jump drive to exFat. I copy the files from Ubuntu plus a bunch of other files. It errors like crazy on stuff that copied fine before with NTFS. Not a solution. So I find an alternate downloader for web pages I want to copy (does not have funky characters in filenames). I reformat back to NTFS on jump drive.
So basically if I want to copy files from my Ubuntu system I am stuck with NTFS and always repairing the filesystem. Yes, all my libraries for exFAT are up to date in Ubuntu.
Is there ever going to be a better way?
When is Windows going to grow up and support ext4?
Why?
Its 2019 and we still have incompatible networks and filesystem formats.
question
just want it to work
baffled
rant