On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:09:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 20:47:33 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote: >>I bought a USB flash drive and was wondering what filesystem I should >>be using on it. >> >>I think it is formatted as exFAT but am not sure. >> >>Any ideas? > >Usually they are FAT32 formatted. I usually stay with FAT32, so they >are compatible to even very old Windows machines, my Roland guitar >synth, DVB-T receivers, the BIOS ... briefly, when formatted with >FAT32, they are compatible with everything.
PS: FAT32 is also good to share data on Linux machines, between different user IDs. If you really want to temporarily store xattrs and privileges you could use a tar archive on the FAT32 formatted USB stick. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
