From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:22:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51CAF93E.2090801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130626130905.GA4218@eisen.lan>
On 26/06/2013 15:09, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Hi list
>
> By chance I found an external 3 TB disk for a bargain and now I’m planning its
> partitioning. I am thus looking for a filesystem that doesn’t necessarily
> need file permissions to function, the reason being that I might want to take
> the disk to other people in order to copy files around. That’s why I don’t
> really want to use ext4 (my FS of choice for everything else).
>
> My current media HDD (1 TB) runs on FAT32. But this is not up-to-date anymore
> due to the 4 GiB filesize limitation. NTFS is also not a good option (for me
> anyway), because whenever I copy a file to it, ntfs-3g sets its mtime to
> now(). This makes it impossible to do automated syncing. Also, it loads the
> CPU pretty heavily when being written to.
>
> Windows compatibility is not a must, but a nice-to-have. That would reduce my
> remaining choices to ExFAT, I presume.
That's how I see it too.
I used to use ext4 for external media but quickly found that my notebook
was the only box that could use them...
exfat ticks more boxes than any other option
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-26 14:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-26 13:09 [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-26 14:22 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-06-26 15:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-27 8:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-27 8:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-06-26 16:40 ` Florian Philipp
2013-06-27 1:33 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27 8:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-06-27 11:36 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-06-27 15:03 ` Helmut Jarausch
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