Designed for removable devices Can access the permissions of NTFS Cannot access the encryption and compression of NTFS 8.3 characters Windows
exFAT
Max Volume size 4 GB Windows Linux macOS Great for multiboot environments
FAT16
Windows
Volumes up to 2 TB
Max file size 4GB
8.3 characters
FAT32
Windows max volume size 16 EB Limit 256 TB power recovery after powerloss permissions auditing ownership efs POSIX compliance Compression Indexing
NTFS
New Technology File System
Legacy
Used on optical disks
replaced by udf
allows for multi session writting
CDFS
CD file system
UNIX
Can utilize a storage area as if it were on your own computer
commonly used in a NAS
NFS
Network file system
Linux file system
ext3/ext4
macOS file system
HFS+
hierarchal file system plus