I don’t know why I even bother opening the settings app

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    5 months ago

    He also wrote the File Formatter, which has a file size limit of 32Gb for the Fat32 format for the same reason: it wasn’t supposed to be permanent, but it hasn’t changed for over 20 years.

    I was thinking about this recently, so it is a bug, not a feature

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      5 months ago

      I mean, it was intentional in a way, so the definition of bug is hazy, but the functioning version would be the ExFAT format.

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        5 months ago

        But the problem isn’t in Fat32 itself, as you can format larger disks in that format just fine

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          5 months ago

          Yes, the final line of my comment explains that, it’s just that the cluster size in Fat32 has a lower bound so if you have files smaller than the cluster then they take a whole cluster, and that can lead to cluster slack that is vast majority wasted space.