On Monday 24 February 2025 22:48:26 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> You need a common denominator. ExFat is a good candidate, methinks, as it > won’t give any issues with file permissions. Since I’ve never held an iOS > device in my hands, I have no idea about what FS they support. But the > answer should be just a short DuckDuck away. :) I tried exfat on a USB M.2 drive at the weekend. I tripped over soft links: I keep a plain copy of /etc with the other tar files for ease of use, and of course the run-level entries are all links. Yes, permissions are fine, but special files are not - not soft links, anyway. -- Regards, Peter.