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On 26/06/2013 15:09, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: |
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> Hi list |
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> By chance I found an external 3 TB disk for a bargain and now I’m planning its |
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> partitioning. I am thus looking for a filesystem that doesn’t necessarily |
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> need file permissions to function, the reason being that I might want to take |
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> the disk to other people in order to copy files around. That’s why I don’t |
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> really want to use ext4 (my FS of choice for everything else). |
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> My current media HDD (1 TB) runs on FAT32. But this is not up-to-date anymore |
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> due to the 4 GiB filesize limitation. NTFS is also not a good option (for me |
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> anyway), because whenever I copy a file to it, ntfs-3g sets its mtime to |
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> now(). This makes it impossible to do automated syncing. Also, it loads the |
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> CPU pretty heavily when being written to. |
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> Windows compatibility is not a must, but a nice-to-have. That would reduce my |
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> remaining choices to ExFAT, I presume. |
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That's how I see it too. |
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I used to use ext4 for external media but quickly found that my notebook |
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was the only box that could use them... |
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exfat ticks more boxes than any other option |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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