filesystems: exFAT or NTFS - for adding LARGE images via USB-stick

[altsheets]

This is about adding IMGs from USB stick. Large IMGs.

(And I have a slow internet connection, so in general I prefer not to work via -huge- downloads, but collect them beforehand.)

If I understand correctly, BerryBoot can only read FAT or ext4 USB-sticks?
But what to do then if I want to put a LARGE img on a USB stick?

The image we are looking at will be ~ 5 GB, and that is too large for FAT. (See this discussion if you want to).

As (most people) cannot write ext4 from Windows - that only leaves NTFS or exFAT - right?

Or perhaps there is another way that I haven't thought about?

Happy about any help. Thanks. Sunny greetings ;-)

[n8atkinson]

From https://superuser.com/questions/465393/how-to-mount-read-write-an-ext4-partition-on-windows
I am going to try
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
and
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-windows-pro/download.html

Trying to add AdagiosPi is almost 8 gigs.

[altsheets]

Interesting.
Please keep us posted about what you find out.

[AndreaBorgia-Abo]

@altsheets thanks for confirming I was not imagining things :)
Spent a few minutes wondering why my 64GB NTFS pendrive was being ignored :)

[markusd1984]

any updates?
I understand that pi doesn't support exFAT and thus windows users need to find a way to write to EXT4 for large files.

UPDATE: https://www.ext2fsd.com seems to enable accessing EXT4 on windows :)
#480

You may use https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html to format it in EXT4

[markusd1984]

lol so first I added the image files unto EXT4 formatted USB but then it turns out berry boot needs to format that drive first in order to install images.

Then when I want to restore an image it won't allow to access it from that destination USB drive because it has to be from a separate attached USB drive?

So to avoid using an SD card for OS you need an SD card for berry boot, USB drive for installing different images which can be only loaded from a 2nd USB drive!?

[penny319]

Just verify, BerryBoot can read ext3.

• 64gb tf card raspberry pi system, create image with win32diskimager in Windows is about 58gb, then copy it to an exFAT USB drive.
• insert the exFAT drive in Raspberryi Pi, use BerryConverter-master covert the image to BerryBoot format which is about 20gb.
• format an ext3 USB drive in Raspberryi Pi, and copy the converted image to the ext3 USB drive.

[smanilov]

I just tried exFAT, ext4, and FAT32. Of the three, just FAT32 could be recognized.

Berryboot version berryboot-cubieboard2-20140627.