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    Set 3rd partition as exfat from fresh install.

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      Yenome
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      On a fresh install of retropie. Is it possible to get retropie to make the 3rd partition exfat instead of ext4. Ive done it manually on an sd card. So to put roms and media all i have to do is plug the sdcard into my windows pc amd copy directly. Being a truck driver i dont always have a network to copy over wifi. I searched forum but didnt find an answer after a few pages of results.

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
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        There's no option in RetroPie for this configuration, but you can use gparted and shrink the 2nd partition (which is ext4) to make room for a 3rd partition. Since gparted is a Linux application, you'll need a Linux system to run it - you can use the Gparted LiveCD to run it on a system that doesn't have Linux installed.

        The easier solution would be to use an USB drive - which you can format as exFAT - and put your ROMs on it: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/.

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