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MS-DOS (FAT) vs MS-DOS FAT 32, can someone explain this

So far as I know and that has been confirmed on threads here, macOS formats to FAT32 as default. This still leaves me with question why the drive (pre-formated to FAT32) in disk utility under erase shows like this.


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Anyone has any idea?

macOS High Sierra (10.13.2)

Posted on Sep 21, 2018 9:56 AM

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Posted on Sep 21, 2018 10:33 AM

MS-DOS (FAT) - This is Disk Utility's name for the FAT32 filesystem.


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MS-DOS (FAT) vs MS-DOS FAT 32, can someone explain this

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