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Originally Posted by Epsilon Rose
You haven't actually said anything compelling. You've bragged about how big your library is, said some weird things about file systems, and insisted it can't be done, but that's about it.
Yes. I came to this forum to ask for advice in setting up something that should be pretty basic. It's unfortunate that you seem more interested in bragging about the side of your library, but there you have it.
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No, I've not bragged. Many people have far larger libraries and 90% of it is PD, mostly collected since 2002. Project Gutenberg started in 1971.
I've said NOTHING weird about Filesytems. Internally most phones, tablets and ereaders (except Apple) use ext4. MS Surface uses NTFS.
No current serious operating system uses FAT32 or exFAT, because it's not very good. SD cards and USB sticks for portable transfer are essentially disposable and should only be copies as they are unreliable.
Any database system not using the OS native file system is unprofessional. All will Export or Send To, or Save on any version of FAT/exFAT.
I've pointed out that you can't have your own folder/directory structure for Calibre, but other than that, you can use an SD Card, but FAT32 or exFAT causes problems. Has to be the native fs, though possibly NTFS would work on Linux. Some tablets might read ext4, but not NTFS (except Surface and other Win1x), but Windows can't easily do ext4, though I've an ext2 driver on XP.
I wrote that it's possible, but difficult and also unreliable.
People have reported issues with USB SSD and HDD using FAT32/exFAT drives for Calibre on Windows and these went away when reformatted as NTFS.