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Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups



On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:15:21PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:14:03 -0400
> rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up
> > to an external USB drive.  I'm wondering about a reasonable
> > filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and
> > I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use anything beyond ext2?
> 
> I use my external USB drives for off-site backup, so I use ext4 on top
> of an encrypted partition.

That's what I do. Actually, I don't even partition: the whole stick is
a LUKS encrypted volume with a single ext4 whithin.

Cheers
 - t

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