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Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades (www.engadget.com)
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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I love how the arstechnica article words it like you will never need FAT32 and it's silly to consider it.

I had to download fat32format I don't know how many times because I needed to format an extra large SD Card or USB drive for some device. Microsoft really shafted exFAT's adoption with their licensing.

[–] mhm@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

Yep, many smart TVs still only accept FAT32 format. I have to split my HDR videos into multiple files to be able to watch them on TV — because of 4GiB size limit.

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