Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:33:34AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 20/08/2020 10:08, David Christensen wrote:
> > On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote:
> > > Without knowing anything about your resources, needs, 
> > > expectations, "consistent backup plan", etc., and given the 
> > > choices ext2, ext3, or ext4 for an external USB drive presumably 
> > > to store backup repositories, I would also pick ext4.
> > If you want to access the backup drive from foreign operating systems:
>
> If interoperability is a consideration, FAT32 and NTFS should also be 
> considered. 

These days exfat is the best choice. No (practical) file size limit like 
fat32, and more reliable across systems than ntfs.