This often shows up as corrupt files like images with lines through them. That should be it, now you can see on the Disk utility information pane for your flash drive that the file system is exFAT, as it is in our example.ĭon't forget to eject your flash drive from your computer, failing to do show can leave half written data on your drive. If you are using a standard installation of Ubuntu desktop you can click the Tile Icon on the bottom left or hit the Windows/Super key to bring up the application search menu.įrom the search window type 'Disk' and you will see an icon that looks like a hard drive named Disks, click it and a window will pop up showing you the disks in your computer.

So for this guide when you see exFAT just know you can replace that with any file system. The exFAT file system is compatible with every operating system and is a more modern version that eliminates the 4GB file size limit of FAT32. We will be changing a flash drive from FAT32 to exFAT. So before you format anything, backup your important files. Luckily for you formatting a flash drive on Linux is pretty straight forward and will only take a few minutes.īefore we get started though a word of warning: formatting a USB flash drive or external hard drive will wipe the data contained therein.

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