Can only format flash drives using FAT32 file system. No exFat or NTFS.
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taked...@gmail.com,
Jul 30 2016
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 8172.62.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.106 Safari/537.36 Platform: 8172.62.0 (Official Build) stable-channel gnawty Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Insert USB or SD flash drive. 2. Right click drive in file manager and select Format 3. Drive is now FAT32 named "UNTITLED" What is the expected behavior? When formatting a flash drive I would like the option to use a file system other than fat32. NTFS or exFat are good options. Specifically, I'd like to have a file system option that supports files larger than 4GB. It is also expected that I be able to rename the drive. What went wrong? Only FAT32 drives named "UNTITLED" are supported. Did this work before? No Chrome version: 51.0.2704.106 Channel: n/a OS Version: 8172.62.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0
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Feb 10 2018
I (and many others) would appreciate the ability to format a USB drive as exFAT. Specifically, I do video production and the Chromebook is perfect for transferring files on site from SD cards and SSDs to external Hard Drives for a handoff at the end of the day. There are moments where I need to format into exFAT (not just read/write it). I'm sure this feature will help sell the Chromebooks to a larger audience.
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Feb 10 2018
You can use command line tools. Here's the top result from googling the problem description: https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/5j0f1c/formatting_usb_sticks_andor_sd_cards/ You need to enable developer mode to make this possible. After that go into terminal(ctrl+alt+t). Type shell and enter. Then follow this procedures. sudo su fdisk -l umount /dev/sdb1 mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 Another options are cfdisk and fdisk.
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See also Issue 787303 (internal bug)
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Comment 1 by denny.lo...@gmail.com
, Jul 31 2016