What is the best and most robust format for a USB pen drive, that can be used by both Linux and Windows, and can deal with files larger than
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What is the best and most robust format for a USB pen drive, that can be used by both Linux and Windows, and can deal with files larger than 4GB?
Background -
Using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
I have a brand-new USB 124GB 3.2 pen drive. Out of the box it was formatted in fat32.
I want it to read and write for both Linux and Windows, including for files bigger than 4GB. (Windows because that is what I imagine my oldish TV uses when I plug the USB drive into the back with lectures and old movies on it).
Problem -
This morning using "USB Stick Formatter" I re-formatted it into exfat. "USB Stick Formatter" said it had been reformatted successfully.
But then I found that it did not mount and was not shown by the file manager, even after restarting the computer. It was however shown in Disks.
Looking at it in gparted, it had one partition only, which had a yellow warning triangle, indicating an error. I deleted the partition using gparted.
Then using the "USB Stick Formatter" again, I formatted it as ntfs. This time it mounted, and seems to work ok.
But strangely enough, Disks still shows its format to be exfat, specifically "NTFS/exFat/HPFS", whatever that is.
When I right-click its icon on the desktop and select Properties, it says "Filesystem type: fuse".
Questions -
1) Why did not exfat work? I thought this was standard for USB pen drives. Has it been superseded?
2) What is the most robust format for USB drives that can be used by both Linux and Windows, including for files bigger than 4GB? In other words, what is going to keep the USB drive working and usable for longest?
Thanks.
Background -
Using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
I have a brand-new USB 124GB 3.2 pen drive. Out of the box it was formatted in fat32.
I want it to read and write for both Linux and Windows, including for files bigger than 4GB. (Windows because that is what I imagine my oldish TV uses when I plug the USB drive into the back with lectures and old movies on it).
Problem -
This morning using "USB Stick Formatter" I re-formatted it into exfat. "USB Stick Formatter" said it had been reformatted successfully.
But then I found that it did not mount and was not shown by the file manager, even after restarting the computer. It was however shown in Disks.
Looking at it in gparted, it had one partition only, which had a yellow warning triangle, indicating an error. I deleted the partition using gparted.
Then using the "USB Stick Formatter" again, I formatted it as ntfs. This time it mounted, and seems to work ok.
But strangely enough, Disks still shows its format to be exfat, specifically "NTFS/exFat/HPFS", whatever that is.
When I right-click its icon on the desktop and select Properties, it says "Filesystem type: fuse".
Questions -
1) Why did not exfat work? I thought this was standard for USB pen drives. Has it been superseded?
2) What is the most robust format for USB drives that can be used by both Linux and Windows, including for files bigger than 4GB? In other words, what is going to keep the USB drive working and usable for longest?
Thanks.