Re:The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux
by mthoms on Saturday March 28, 2020 @06:40PM
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How does this square with Microsoft removing or deprecating exFAT support from Windows [0]? Isn't the whole point to have a file system with cross-platform support? I mean, is Microsoft being nefarious by allowing exFAT to come to Linux while at the same time beginning to drop support in Windows? Or am I reading too much into this?
[0]: I came across the comment below yesterday and was able to verify that any mention of exFAT has been removed from the official "diskpart" documentation.
> Well it appears that Windows 10 support for exFAT has been dropped in a recent update. The option no longer appears in the drive format dialog, nor does it appear in the diskpart utility. Any mention of exFAT has been expunged from the official diskpart documentation making me believe that Microsoft has officially terminated support for it, even so I cannot find any official announcements or confirmations of that. source - https://superuser.com/a/1420186
Re:The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux
by zaarn on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:45AM
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A comment on that response explains it; some partitions marked for NTFS filesystems will not allow it to be formatted as exFAT, it's still present on the latest version AFAICT.
[0]: I came across the comment below yesterday and was able to verify that any mention of exFAT has been removed from the official "diskpart" documentation.
> Well it appears that Windows 10 support for exFAT has been dropped in a recent update. The option no longer appears in the drive format dialog, nor does it appear in the diskpart utility. Any mention of exFAT has been expunged from the official diskpart documentation making me believe that Microsoft has officially terminated support for it, even so I cannot find any official announcements or confirmations of that. source - https://superuser.com/a/1420186