[PROBLEM] Samba setup.....Idiot guide required??

[Tonewheelkev]

Stick with Fat32. Its fast, reliable and has the best support across operating systems.

......great....not being offerred the Fat32 option with a 1 TB SSD tho'.....


P.S.    I'd like me to go away too!

[Nutul]

Stick with Fat32. Its fast, reliable and has the best support across operating systems.

......great....not being offerred the Fat32 option with a 1 TB SSD tho'.....


P.S.    I'd like me to go away too!

OMG... yet another Windoze thing... it can read bigger Fat32 drives formatted by something else, but cannot itself format in Fat32 bigger than 32GB...
Although you could use your Pi to format the 1TB SSD, before resrting to that, give the ExFAT option a try...

[TheOldPresbyope]

A FAT32 partition is limited to no more than 8GB 8TB and no file in it can exceed 4GB. Even though Microsoft invented the format, inexplicitly Windows has this 32GB limit.

An exFAT partition is essentially unlimited in both partition size and file size. Microsoft invented this format too, kept it proprietary for the first decade or so, and finally released its specification publicly just four years ago.

Supposedly, operations on an exFAT partition are somewhat faster (maybe 25 percent) than on a FAT32 partition, but that advantage may disappear with USB interfaces.

AFAIK all modern Linux systems are fine with both types. 

Regards,
Kent

ETA - Thanks, Tim, for noticing my typo. Either too much or too little coffee, not sure which As well, various publications seem to differ on the exact limits --- among other things it depends on the bytes/sector allocation.

[Tim Curtis]

A FAT32 partition is limited to no more than 8GB and no file in it can exceed 4GB. Even though Microsoft invented the format, inexplicitly Windows has this 32GB limit.

An exFAT partition is essentially unlimited in both partition size and file size. Microsoft invented this format too, kept it proprietary for the first decade or so, and finally released its specification publicly just four years ago.

Supposedly, operations on an exFAT partition are somewhat faster (maybe 25 percent) than on a FAT32 partition, but that advantage may disappear with USB interfaces.

AFAIK all modern Linux systems are fine with both types. 

Regards,
Kent

I always format external drives Fat32 and no problems with large partitions.

       

I think the max size is something like 8TB or 16TB but various OS's limit the max size. I'm not sure what the limit is on my Mac.

[Nutul]

A FAT32 partition is limited to no more than 8GB and no file in it can exceed 4GB. Even though Microsoft invented the format, inexplicitly Windows has this 32GB limit.

An exFAT partition is essentially unlimited in both partition size and file size. Microsoft invented this format too, kept it proprietary for the first decade or so, and finally released its specification publicly just four years ago.

Supposedly, operations on an exFAT partition are somewhat faster (maybe 25 percent) than on a FAT32 partition, but that advantage may disappear with USB interfaces.

AFAIK all modern Linux systems are fine with both types. 

Regards,
Kent

I always format external drives Fat32 and no problems with large partitions.



I think the max size is something like 8TB or 16TB but various OS's limit the max size. I'm not sure what the limit is on my Mac.

Indeed the limit is in Windows (Mac and Linux aren't affected), the maximum size, depending on the cluster size, is 16TB

source: http://ntfs.com/exfat-comparison.htm

[TheOldPresbyope]

Ouch, edited post to fix typo.

[Tonewheelkev]

Had a go with ExFat.....can't get it to recognise a small handful of folders/albums
....so not encouraging at this point.

Might there be a 'go to' tool for formatting to Fat32??

[TheOldPresbyope]

Search engines are your friend. First hit I got was https://www.howtogeek.com/316977/how-to-...n-windows/

[Tonewheelkev]

Search engines are your friend. First hit I got was https://www.howtogeek.com/316977/how-to-...n-windows/

Sod's Law I suppose.....I'd found a couple of these that were no good!
(Even though t'internet is my friend too)
Will try this in the morning....
Thanks

[Tonewheelkev]

Thanks Kent, for the link to the Fat32 converter....spot on!