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bobby

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From: Nevada, USA

Registered: 2015-12-24

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USB Fat16 vs EXT4 + Swap partition

This is one area of installing any Linux distro that I lack enough knowledge.

Other than not being able to been seen by a WinOS computer, why else use Fat16 ? and not just EXT4 + Swap ?

Thank ahead of time,

Bobby

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Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: USB Fat16 vs EXT4 + Swap partition

As far as I know FAT file systems does not have ownership and access permissions like ext3, ext4. So you can use FAT32 for example if you don`t want to bother with access permissions or if you want to share stored on FAT32 data with another users without any extra work. Also don`t forget, that FAT32 (and FAT16) are supported by almost all operating systems. Just don`t use exFAT!
More about FAT32.

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bobby

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From: Nevada, USA

Registered: 2015-12-24

Posts: 459

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Re: USB Fat16 vs EXT4 + Swap partition

@Rademes,   Thanks for info.

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