How to change format of external hard drive from ExFat to HFS+ without losing data? What are limits for maximum size of a file on both formats?
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Best Answer
There is no way to do that without copying all data to a second disk, formatting the first as HFS+, and copying the data back.
The file size limit under ExFat is about 16 Exabytes, which is higher than the maximum possible volume size. And HFS+ is similarly crazy: 8 Exabytes is the limit. Which means that you should never have to worry about file size again! (The developers of FAT32 probably thought the same though :p)
Next time, please make use of websites like Wikipedia before posting these sorts of questions.