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jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

www.engadget.com

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Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

www.engadget.com

jeffw@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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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.
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    Microsoft caught up to Linux.

    They cannot even read (let alone write) any of the FOSS file systems used in Linux.

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      Thankfully. I wouldn’t trust windows with a mounted foreign filesystem if I dual booted.

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      That’s an odd statement. I had an ext4 partition mounted on a Windows 11 machine just a week ago.

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        Natively somehow, or via LFS? If you have LFS set up, explorer lets you use it to mount Linux disks

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      Well, I was referring to Fat32. Probably shouldve stated that before lol. But yeah i absolutely agree.

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