June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
1180 pages
37h 48m
English
Some Linux users have a Windows version installed on their computer in parallel. But external data media also often use Windows file systems (USB flash drives, memory cards of digital cameras, etc.). In the following sections, you’ll learn how you can access Windows file systems on Linux—no matter whether they are located in a partition of the internal hard disk or on an external data medium.
There are three fundamentally different Windows file systems:
FAT, VFAT, and exFATThere are countless variants of the FAT file system. The oldest versions historically are FAT12 for floppy disks, FAT16 for file systems up to 2 GiB, and FAT32 for file systems up to 8 TiB and files up to 4 GiB. Windows 95 also ...
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