How to Convert your External Portable Media into exFAT!
This video is about how to convert your External Portable SSD into the multiplatform filesystem exFAT with GUI Tool of Linux Mint. This filesystem is compatible with Windows, Mac OSX and with Linux. The destination drive can be an SSD, an USB stick, a MicroSD Card or an ordinary HDD.
1. If you would like to convert your SSD, USB, HDD or MicroSD card into exFAT, the first thing you need to do is to make a Backup!
2. Secondly you need to install the exFAT support packages.
You can do this by running in terminal the following command:
sudo apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse
Then the next steps are easy to follow in the Graphical User Interface of Linux Mint, just follow the instructions in this video.
3. Open “Disks” application from Linux StartMenu, type in search the word “Disks” and press enter.
4. Select your Disk Drive you would want to convert. Make sure you made all backups beforehand because all data will be lost!
5. Press the “gears” button and select “Format”.
6. Select “Custom” as “Type” and type in “exfat” as a filesystem (in small letters).
7. Enter a name in “Name” for example “SSD”.
8. Press “Format”.
Great, now your SSD is converted into the exFAT filesystem.
ExFAT is compatible within 3 platforms and that is immediately one of the biggest advantages to use exFAT over the other filesystems.
ExFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is compatible with Linux, Windows and even Mac OSX. It was introduced in 2006 and optimized for Flash Memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.
ExFAT can be used where NTFS is not a feasible solution due to data structure overhead but a greater file size limit than the standard FAT32 file system where 4GB is required.
Another big advantage of this file system is that you can save big chunk of files directly to the exFAT SSD, HDD, USB or MicroSD Card which is awesome!
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