On Dec 25, 2012 10:44 PM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > Merry Christmas to all. > > Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to > 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files > are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get > written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff or > anything like that. > > This disk reside on my main desktop machine and gets backed up > every couple of days to another USB2 drive (FAT formatted > unfortunately) which attaches to the TV. > > With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. > I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. > > Cheers, > Mark >
For your usage, I think ext3 is the most suitable. Do you have another fs in mind? Rgds, --
