I have searched the internet, but could not find any convincing answers;
Are the filesystems VFAT and FAT32 the same, or are there any differences between them?
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FAT32
along with FAT16
and FAT12
are File System Types, but vfat
along with umsdos
and msdos
are drivers, used to mount the FAT file systems in Linux. The choosing of the driver determines how some of the features are applied to the file system, for example, systems mounted with msdos
driver don't have long filenames (they are 8.3 format). vfat
is the most common driver for mounting FAT32 file systems nowadays.
Source: this wikipedia article
Output of commands like df
and lsblk
indeed show vfat
as the File System Type. But sudo file -sL /dev/<partition>
shows FAT (32 bit)
if a File System is FAT32.
You can confirm vfat
is a module and not a File System Type by running modinfo vfat
.
Source: Stackoverflow.com