<div dir="auto">Pretty sure exFAT can be read by Linux/Windows/MacOS<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Thanks,<br>Alexander<br><br>Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 2, 2023, 15:48 David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">AFAIK, most backup drives including USB things are formatted as something like EXT3 that can be read by pretty much any OS.<div><br></div><div>The ones that say “Windows” are going to be NTFS and the Mac ones are going to be something Macs prefer.</div><div><br></div><div>I’ve got Macs and I have to be careful when i get external drives b/c if I reformat them without scrutinizing the format, they can’t be read on Windows, and vice versa. But as long as I leave the existing formatting intact, I usually have no trouble reading and writing files between both Win and Mac, and probably Chromebooks as well (I don’t have a Chromebook, so I’m not sure).<br><div><br><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 2, 2023, at 10:20 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div>Very cool. My power supply, I think, for my NUC just bit the dust and I couldn't get my Windows box to read the back up USB drives. The cool thing is that my little chromebook CAN read them. So I emailed the file I wanted to work on (a libre calc file) to myself and then I opened it on the windows box. And before anyone asks I sure thought I format the drives in an M$ format. The windows box didn't ask if I wanted to format the drive.</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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