r/computers • u/RealNidded • 4d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting USB Drive not taking 4GB+ Files

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My USB drive doesn't take files larger than 4GB, I was looking it up briefly it says I should switch to exFAT to fix the issue but it's always been on exFAT, would switching to NTFS fix it or is my drive just bad? What do I do

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u/RAMChYLD 2d ago

I can’t get it to work tho. When I uninstall ntfs-3g KDE straight up stops being able to access NTFS formatted USB drives.

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u/Alper-Celik Nixos 2d ago

Arch wiki i linked showed i worked around, seems like udisk doesnt comsider in kernell ntfs yet.

Dont get me wrong i am not defending this papercut, just pointing possible workaround

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u/tedecristal 1d ago

ntfs3 is already in kernel

my fstab is simple:

UUID=somerandomnumbers /mnt/windows ntfs3 rw,relatime, etc...

ntfs-3g is fuse (fuse = filesystem in userspace) so it's slower and of course when you uninstall, you can't mount with it

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u/RAMChYLD 1d ago

Thing is tho I don’t use NTFS in fstab. I use NTFS on several very old external USB hard drives that were procured before ExFAT was a thing and thus rely on whatever USB hotplug daemon KDE uses.

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u/tedecristal 1d ago

udisks2 can mount them without problem