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		winkelmann 80 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: About the BLOBs in Ventoy FAT32 is not an option because Windows images these days are all over 4GiB. exFAT is very widely supported; the alternative would be NTFS, which doesn't work well (no write support) on macOS.

burnt-resistor 78 days ago [–]

> exFAT is very widely supported;

Except it's not by all of the things I need to use, so that's not going to work. Compatibility vs. 4 GiB limit. There is no perfect, only trade-offs.

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