Matt1223 wrote:
Is there a way to format partition as bare bones FAT32 and not vFAT on linux?
Matt1223, I agree with your use of the terminology.
That is to say, FAT32 is a variant of the FAT filesystems that uses a 32 bit cluster - reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allo ... able#FAT32And vFAT is a means of storing longer filenames in a FAT directory - reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allo ... Table#VFATHowever, to attempt to answer your question is tricky because while I get what you're asking, the VFAT extension works on FAT16 and FAT32 filesystems, and is invisible to an OS that is not aware of it. VFAT was introduced with Windows 95 in 1995, and FAT32 was introduced in Windows 95 OSR2 in 1996. Hence it isn't exactly a supported use of FAT32 if what you want is FAT32 which prohibits somehow the use of VFAT filenames.
I actually think you're simply asking how to set up a FAT32 filesystem that doesn't use VFAT at all. That's quite simple: stick to only 8.3 filenames and uppercase characters. VFAT does nothing to filenames if they stick to the restrictions of the original FAT directory entry.