I have been using a Seagate 8tb external hard drive for about a year now formatted to exfat and I'm constantly pounding on that thing and I have yet to have any files corrupt or any issues. Everyone's mileage may be different but I've at least had very good luck using exfat.

To format the drive in Windows 10 as a GPT disk:

Right click on "This PC" and select Manage In the Computer Management window, select Disk Management toward the bottom of the left side If a message appears asking if you want to initialize the disk, you can do so and select GPT and click OK If the disk already has a format, you can right click under where is says Disk # and there should be an option to "Convert to GPT Disk"
NOTE: This will erase anything you have on the disk currently. After the disk is set to GPT, you can right click the unallocated area (should be the whole disk) and choose "Create a New Simple Volume" Set the file system type and label if desired, this will format the drive

I will try that, thanks! Sorry for being ignorant and reading the rules correctly..

On a somewhat related note: will retropie support CRT / 240p right out of the box?

This won't work.
The vfat boot partition should contain only boot files, and the linux OS has to run on a linux FS type. Period.

What you could do is shrinking the ext partition, then create a new one, format it VFAT and mount it on /home/pi/roms, but this would cause issues with simlink ans so, and it's really FAR from being straightforward.

SMB and USB should not be so slow, especially if you only need 2Gb, and I would recommand to use them.

@qu9ke RetropPie will not use the FAT32 formatted partition to store the data. It doesn't matter if your SD card is formatted or not. If you write the RetroPie image on the card, you'll see that will create 2 partitions

a small Fat32 partition to hold the boot files and boot configuration a larger Linux partition that will actually hold the system, including the ROMs, emulators, etc. This partition will be automatically expanded on 1st boot to fill in the rest of your SD card.

So yes, you're overthinking it. Just write the RetroPie image on the SD card and start your Raspberry Pi.

@jonnykesh said in Error formatting 64Gb USB:

@landyvlad Windows is a pain the the ass. Use a third party tool like this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/pls/index.html or this https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/best-fat32-format-tool.html

The former didn't give me any options and formatted the usb stick (which it said was an sd card) as ex-FAT rather than FAT32.

The second easeus worked fine and quickly. Cheers

So I played around a bit, got a new SD card with the image on it.. did all the typical tweaks (enable wifi, disable overscan). I then followed the guide up to editing the fstab. Plugged in the UUID appropriate for my drive, and used this command:

UUID=******** /home/pi/RetroPie ntfs rw,exec,uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=022 0 2

Essentially, I'm using the vfat example in the guide, and just changed it to ntfs. The rest of the options I'm not sure what are for, but it looks like user permissions (like read/write/execute/etc) for the path and it's specifying the user as pi so I left that in there from the example. I'm not sure about the umask bit, so I just left it too. If somebody can clarify on what all those are, I'll edit my setting if needed. But for the most part, it looks like it's working. I was SFTP'd into the Pi prior to rebooting. I could access /home/pi and everything else on the system just fine, but not /home/pi/retropie. However, after rebooting, that last /retropie/ bit opened up and gave me access to things like the bios and roms subfolders. So I'm assuming that means the automount DID work. The only way I'll know for sure is if I transfer in bunch of files over 8gb, because that's the limit of my SD card. :)

@andyng start a new topic. This one is 3 years old.

@AlmightyHeretic

Try following this guide here to mount your drive.

properly-mount-usb-storage-raspberry-pi

That should solve most of your problems.