What file System does risc os use?

Ah, that would be the OS version they ceased retail sale of recently.

Don’t have a copy of Windows 8.x to look at. I saw it in a shop display and thought “oh my God”. I hope by the time I need to upgrade, we’re on Windows X and it looks like it ought to, because I’d lump 8 (8.1?) right in there with Unity in a big case of “WTF have you done, dude?”.

NB. I could have sworn all that FAT information was in the main link or sub-links from it.

Yup, prolly. I’m used to people looking at links and thinking “too much effort”. Besides, I wasn’t doing anything interesting. Kyoukai no Kanata is tomorrow… ;-)

“Some devices support exFAT. The majority, I suspect, would just stick to regular FAT32. Certainly, I’ve never seen anything formatted exFAT…”

In my experience, (I only have used Windows at the local Library a few times), on Linux, FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4GB. A DVD iso can be more than this, so while using someone else’s Windows machine, the option is to format to either exFAT or NTFS. Linux supports both, though I have noticed that after deleting files from the exFat USB stick in Linux that when I return to the Windows machines in the Library, they appear as being full, so I simply do a quick reformat to exFAT again. NTFS support is a bit older and may be more reliable.
RISC OS can only do 4GB files anyway, so can’t make use of large files.
The question will be what TV, bluray players, satbox/PVR’s or even Camera’s will use to enable files more than 4GB in the future.
All the player/pvr devices I have are only compatible with up to FAT32.

Don’t have a copy of Windows 8.x to look at. I saw it in a shop display

Saw it on tablet (pre-release). The MS server boys had a desktop copy for review and even their reaction was WTF…

Off-topic – ceasing.