A customer wants to format a 4TB external drive with a filesystem that is compatible with both Windows and Linux OSs. Which of the following should the technician suggest the customer use?

The correct answer is B. exFAT. exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is the correct filesystem for a 4TB drive that must work natively on both Windows and Linux. exFAT has no practical file or volume size limits (supporting files well beyond 4GB) and is natively supported in Windows and in the Linux kernel…

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AExt4
BexFAT
CNFS
DFAT32
ECDFS

How the community answered

(41 responses)

B
93% (38)
C
2% (1)
D
5% (2)

Explanation

exFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is the correct filesystem for a 4TB drive that must work natively on both Windows and Linux. exFAT has no practical file or volume size limits (supporting files well beyond 4GB) and is natively supported in Windows and in the Linux kernel (since kernel 5.4). FAT32 (D) is cross-platform but has a 4GB maximum file size limit and a 2TB practical volume limit, making it unsuitable for a 4TB drive. Ext4 (A) is Linux-native and requires third-party drivers on Windows. NFS (C) is a network file-sharing protocol, not a local filesystem. CDFS (E) is a read-only filesystem used for optical discs.

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