FAT (and FAT32) would probably involve less experimentation. to bypass the
limitations of FAT, I recommend using tar(1) and split(1).
tar cfC - /filesystem-to-back-up . | split -b 2000m
that will produce a tar file split into 2GB chunks named xaa, xab, xac,
etc. to restore:
cat x?? | tar xfC - /directory-to-restore-into .
this assumes that NetBSD tar and split are substantially similar to
OpenBSD's.
-ken
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Josh Grosse <j...@jggimi.homeip.net> wrote:
> On 2015-03-01 11:40, etie...@magickarpet.org wrote:
>
> Could anyone recommend which filesystem type to use when backing up a
>> few hundred GB of files from NetBSD onto a USB disk, planning to
>> restore them on an OpenBSD machine. I remember distantly that last
>> time I tried with FFS, it didn't work.
>>
>
> You might experiment with ext2fs. IIRC, FAT has two strikes against it:
> owner/mode, and 4GB individual filesize limit. NTFS (built-in, or FUSE)
> has its own owner/mode translation issues, such that you would liely want
> to archive files as intermediate step.
>
> Of course, network file transfers, if you had the bandwidth, would preclude
> the need for any foreign file systems.
