-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2012 12:15 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > I have got a new external hard disk, which I would like to use as > a mirror of my home directory (for backup purpose). What format for > the external disk filesystem do you recommend? And what the proper > command to accomplish the formatting?
If you need to access the backups from other non-Linux systems you may be better off with something like FAT32 (or even NTFS) as these will mount with no trouble or additional software on Windows and Mac systems as well as just about any Linux or BSD distro. You can store the backups in an archive format like tar which avoids the problem of mapping Windows/DOS ownership and permissions to UNIX notions. You could also look at UDF for this (it's supported by most modern systems now) but I'll admit I've never used it for writable volumes personally. If you don't care about compatibility with other platforms then you can chose from the available local file systems. This more-or-less boils down to ext4, xfs and btrfs these days. I'm using a couple of 1TiB drives in a pair of eSATA cradles (one at home, one at the office) with an LVM2 VG and XFS for this sort of use. I add LVM just so that I can take snapshots of volumes on the disks. Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/HcPQACgkQ6YSQoMYUY95xiwCgg7VwyzGFltMcU3/nbm1O9H2d hfkAn1ujknEXGvTq0vb523nn3Bx2/x1s =KrnU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
