Fedora 17

Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
or a ntfs partition ?

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On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17
>
> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
> or a ntfs partition ?

ext4

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On 29.06.2012 20:00, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote:
>> Fedora 17
>>
>> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
>> or a ntfs partition ?
> ext4
>
btrfs

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On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 13:54 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Fedora 17
>
> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
> or a ntfs partition ?

It depends upon it's use. Strictly a linux drive btrfs or ext4, if you
plan on extracting files on to a Windows machine, better make in NTFS
but YMMV

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Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 29.06.2012 20:00, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote:
>>> Fedora 17
>>>
>>> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
>>> or a ntfs partition ?
>> ext4
>>
> btrfs
>

If you care about your data, especially for a backup drive, you won't
use btrfs. There is still no, stable, fsck utility for btrfs.

Ext4 is perfect; plus, you can always migrate to btrfs with the
conversion tool once there is a stable btrfs-fsck tool.
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