gadgettuta.blogg.se - Best file system for usb

I do find that the Linux "ext4" file system to be faster and it is quick and easy to fix if needed. If you have multimedia files (music, videos and movies, pictures, etc.) that you may want to use (or share) with any of the aforementioned computers and devices at home or elsewhere, then you want an NTFS partition available for those.

most of which will not read the Linux "ext4" partition (this may be changing now because some of the newer devices will read the Linux ext4 file system). The NTFS partition is accessible by almost any other computer and their operating systems, and smart devices like smart TV and Blu-Ray / DVD players, tablets, Game consoles, hardware routers with USB ports, etc. I chose to make 2 partitions on my WD USB external drives: I left the existing NTFS partition, but I shrank it in half so I could also create a Linux "ext4" partition. If you are only going to use the drive for backing up, then you can use whatever you want, leave the existing NTFS file system, or format it using the typical Linux "ext4" format. This depends upon what you want to use your USB external drive for. If you run " inxi -Fxzd" and " lsusb" from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information. It would help to know more about your system setup. I'm not asking which filesystem is "better", I just want to maximize the spectrum of systems I can use my USB drive with, without having to install drivers or update the OS.Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!.I'm not interested in performance/security/fault tolerance or other such features, just portability.

Also, the answer there suggests filesystems which typically require installing third-party drivers or have other issues.

Unlike this question, I can't accept the 4GB file limit.

So, in this day and age, and for the OSes I mentioned (perhaps even others) - which filesystem should I choose? My current best guess is NTFS, since I know the Linux support is decent (or better) and for Windows it's native. In the olden days I would probably use FAT32, which I remember to be quite widely supported - but that has a 4GB file limit. I'm formatting (a single partition on) my USB drive, for read-write use on multiple computers - at the very least Windows (XP and up), Mac OS (not sure which versions) and Linux (distributions which are no more than, say, 4 years old).