On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:15:21PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400 > 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 my external USB drives for off-site backup, so I use ext4 on top > of an encrypted partition.
That's what I do. Actually, I don't even partition: the whole stick is a LUKS encrypted volume with a single ext4 whithin. Cheers - t
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