From exFAT Versus FAT32 Versus NTFS However, exFAT should be a true competitor to NTFS on systems with limited processing power and memory. NTFS on flash memory has been known to be …

Aug 15, 2014 · I search online, and entered this into terminal (without the $): $ sudo fsck_exfat -d disk0s4 where disk0s4 was the exfat partition. Then I ran Disk Utility repair, repair returned errors, …

The default allocation unit (cluster) size in exFAT is much larger than the default allocation unit size in NTFS. As you've noted in your question, exFAT defaults to 256KB, but NTFS defaults to 4KB for …

Jan 28, 2009 · Don't use exFAT unless you very regularly backup files and never "move" files using your USB drive as exFAT is not very stable, same for FAT32. It’s going to be a general purpose USB …

However, considering the supposed universality of this file system, this is definitely a very questionable approach by Microsoft, although exFAT, while not a very robust file system, usually doesn't corrupt …

Jun 20, 2013 · Hey guys. I have an external HDD formatted as exFat that doesn't seem to work on my PowerBook G4. I know that I could always reformat it to FAT32, but the file size limitations of that …

I was given a USB hard drive formatted in exFAT to mount on a system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. I've installed the exfat-utils and fuse-exfat RPM's, but when I try to mount the exFAT parti...

Jun 21, 2009 · I forgot to update this thread... The solution was to format the drive with all ExFAT partitions. Apparently you cannot mix and match macOS file systems with non-Apple file system types.

I'm hitting the 4GB limit of FAT32 on USB drives more and more often. However, being able to unplug the device without unmounting it first is a must have for me. I've noticed exFAT recently, howeve...

Feb 18, 2010 · Hi, I formatted all my backup drives using ExFat format for a Mac running 10.7.3 and a PC running Windows 7 64-bit. I am interested in getting a two-drive RAID 1 setup (from OWC or G …