![]() ![]() The large disk sizes of today were only theoretical in those days, so it probably seemed ridiculous to the engineers that anyone would ever need a file larger than 4 GB. File and Volume Size LimitsįAT32 was developed many years ago, and was based on older FAT filesystems meant for DOS computers. This makes it a strong candidate for being the file system of choice for most USB drives, so long as you can live with FAT32's file size limits - which we'll go over next. The takeaway from this chart on portability is that FAT32 (having been around for so long) is supported on almost all devices. ![]() Windows, macOS, and Linux all have third-party drivers and software that can help them read unsupported formats, but we're really focusing on native ability here. Keep in mind that this chart chose the native abilities of each OS to use these file systems. ext2, ext3, & ext4: The extended file system (ext) was the first file system created specifically for the Linux kernel.exFAT: The extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) builds on FAT32 and offers a lightweight system without all the overhead of NTFS. ![]()
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