On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:55:35PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 13/08/2020 12:14, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an > >external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I > >think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is > >any > >good reason to use anything beyond ext2? > > I use and recommend ext4. Journaling protects against filesystem > metadata corruption, which can be caused by an electrical outage or > system crash.
...or by early extraction of the media. After all, it's USB sticks we are talking about. Definitely: if you have to ask, ext4 is the answer. If you really need anything else, you definitely know. Cheers - t
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