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Q&A What partition type should be used for cross-platform FAT partitions?

Question What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive? Notes I am partitioning the drive with fdisk and making the filesystem ...

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What partition type should be used for cross-platform FAT partitions?

# Question
What partition type should I use for FAT partitions such that Linux and Windows systems both recognize the drive?

# Notes
I am partitioning the drive with `fdisk` and making the filesystem with `mkfs.fat /dev/sdx`. Linux seems to recognize anything I throw at it. Microsoft is the problem.

Is there a modern replacement for the `W95 FAT32 (LBA)` partition type? A new drive I recently bought comes with this type and it is recognized by both Linux and Windows systems.

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