Pretty sure exFAT can be read by Linux/Windows/MacOS

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Alexander

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On Sat, Sep 2, 2023, 15:48 David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> AFAIK, most backup drives including USB things are formatted as something
> like EXT3 that can be read by pretty much any OS.
>
> The ones that say “Windows” are going to be NTFS and the Mac ones are
> going to be something Macs prefer.
>
> 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).
>
> -David Schwartz
>
>
>
>
> On Sep 2, 2023, at 10:20 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
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