Question Which file system for portable storage?

[kacper6768]

Which file system is best to choose for pen drives and USB drives? The default setting for flash drives is FAT32, for USB drives it is NTFS. I use 8 GB pendrives, but sometimes I copy a file larger than 4 GB and the default FAT32 is a limitation. Is it better to choose the exFAT or NTFS file system for pendrives or is it better to stay with the default FAT32 and, if you copy files larger than 4 GB, split them into RARs using Winrar? Is NTFS the best choice for a 1TB USB drive or should I change it to exFAT?When a smartphone hangs and resets, can the memory card in it be damaged, such as a pendrive being ejected from the computer without clicking on safely remove the device?I use Windows 10, but is there any universal file system that can be used on a USB drive or USB stick on MAC OS and Linux computers?

 

[USAFRet]

Which file system is best to choose

Whatever your OS's supports, and whichever supports the file sizes you have.

Secondarily, have more than one copy of anything you do not wish to lose.

 

[Grobe]

I'm not an Aple/mac guy, but if xfs is supported on your mac, that is a good choice if the files are mostly big.

But from what a random web search is able to cough up, it seems like ext4 and fat32 should be supported by both OS'es. I'd choose ext4 over fat32.