On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:33:34AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
On 20/08/2020 10:08, David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
Without knowing anything about your resources, needs,
expectations, "consistent backup plan", etc., and given the
choices ext2, ext3, or ext4 for an external USB drive presumably
to store backup repositories, I would also pick ext4.
If you want to access the backup drive from foreign operating systems:
If interoperability is a consideration, FAT32 and NTFS should also be
considered.
These days exfat is the best choice. No (practical) file size limit like
fat32, and more reliable across systems than ntfs.