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.mckin...@gmail.com
