On Sunday 02 March 2008, Jan de Groot wrote: > External harddisks and USB sticks come preformatted with FAT32 because > NTFS isn't compatible with Mac OS X. FAT32 is the only choice for these > vendors if they want cross-compatibility. > When you install Windows on a >32GB partition, the setup doesn't allow > you to format FAT32, only NTFS. Reasoning behind this is that you get > inefficient cluster sizes on FAT32 then, and scandisk operations at > bootup take ages to complete with many errors due to a missing journal.
As I said, i don't want to get into why the things are how they are. The fact is that neither FAT32 nor ext2 are dead and are widely used.
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