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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



  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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