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Originally Posted by timeisart

Maybe this would help?



https://www.macworld.com/article/105...eekfactor.html



I think you already said this wouldn't work but it talks about FAT32 in that article so maybe. but that article is 11 years old so maybe not, I honestly have no clue how this stuff works.



thanks for your explanation of cloning though, I'm on a mac so I was wondering this myself.



edit: nevermind, didn't see this at the bottom of that article:

Thanks, I think I came across that article, and even went through other google search results with similar results. Unfortunately, macs can not format FAT32 on the fly, as it is a windows type of file system. The linked article even has this disclaimer :

Note that this command works only on Intel Macs with hard disks formatted using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) format with a journaled Hierarchical File System Plus (HFS+) file system. This is the default for Intel Macs’ hard disks, but you can also format an external drive in this manner through Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities).