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

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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