What are the difference between MS-dos FAT32 format and windows FAT32 format

Question

What are the difference between MS-dos FAT32 format and windows FAT32 format?

Answer 1

Hum... Fyi, on a mac (running macos), in the Terminal application, you can scan a USB key using the "diskutil" command line utility. When the key is brand new, you get this result:

$ diskutil list disk2 /dev/disk2 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.1 GB disk2 1: Windows_FAT_32 EVERIO_SD 16.1 GB disk2s1

If you format the USB key with the "Disk Utility.app", using the "MS-DOS (FAT32)" parameter, then you will get:

$ diskutil list disk2 /dev/disk2 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: FDisk_partition_scheme *16.1 GB disk2 1: DOS_FAT_32 EVERIO_SD 16.1 GB disk2s1

So, at least from the point of view of macos, there seems to be a potential difference between "Windows_FAT_32" and "DOS_FAT_32"...