From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D6DC1381F3 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:24:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE364E0A0B; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f41.google.com (mail-ee0-f41.google.com [74.125.83.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C0E2E095A for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:24:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f41.google.com with SMTP id d17so7433143eek.14 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:24:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=q0N9qEGQ6aQWKx9sF7JJqW/ywjXOV+2xTKs+wFpcZ/E=; b=pUv83zNlvqfSqk3R/SP6xvxGSCQJD8hOBEVFLXUGZ89IfeGAhzOXVDm1pdgwg76njq Eh1kOTiu3VGdYL3gcgKLvZis2OyjN0p368bApkfSOycASrAEOx7UY88ysmXb5F+4sljr SQ5pgSIiG6kl36s8pMIwoo8baGdzdwQQDleodfOhJaCcTTtVJiI4xW59kViEF+OEJrdd NPUZ9WqaieupwH4SQKW/qZpaIiLUc3Nncj/WsQXZ3MyCygnLjIYLKxSK1cfbyAw3PxYO vg9VEpqvsuzoAVriznd6AzNamN3hgJE2vr6PpoWkOZdXHX+zvyngo2HHJR3TQGzv5VbV I0Fw== X-Received: by 10.14.221.137 with SMTP id r9mr4246949eep.124.1372256676015; Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-102-27.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w43sm43218010eez.6.2013.06.26.07.24.34 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51CAF93E.2090801@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:22:54 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130612 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem recommendation for external media storage References: <20130626130905.GA4218@eisen.lan> In-Reply-To: <20130626130905.GA4218@eisen.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: afc86201-c59a-4079-a085-478bf2a17b18 X-Archives-Hash: a4f6bbcde3d582bedd767b9adcb657fb 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