2 Mar
2008
2 Mar
'08
2:26 p.m.
On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote:
External harddisks and USB sticks come preformatted with FAT32 because NTFS isn't compatible with Mac OS X. FAT32 is the only choice for these vendors if they want cross-compatibility. When you install Windows on a >32GB partition, the setup doesn't allow you to format FAT32, only NTFS. Reasoning behind this is that you get inefficient cluster sizes on FAT32 then, and scandisk operations at bootup take ages to complete with many errors due to a missing journal.
As I said, i don't want to get into why the things are how they are. The fact is that neither FAT32 nor ext2 are dead and are widely used.