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The problem isn't with exFAT, it is with fsck_exfat, which I'm fairly certain Microsoft didn't write.

chkdsk on Windows manages to clean exFAT volumes just fine without using up 8gb+ of memory.



yeah sometimes I'll boot into Windows just to clean the drives :-(




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