Second on ext4. It's faster, supports longer filenames, is case sensitive, and is journaled to protect you from unexpected reboots.
Viel spaß! Bernhard <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Schlaufer schrieb am 06.08.20 um 09:36: > > Dear All > > > > I am with dt since half a year after more than 10 years with LR and > > I have to say, that after an initial hard time I find it now better > > for me. I am a frequent reader to this blog and these mails. With > > this I became more interested with Linux. I am now on MacOs and > > working with dt is going very smoothly. However my temptation for > > Linux grew bigger, I therefore built on my Macbook Air an Ubuntu > > Application on which I as doing my first steps and I find it even > > better and am tempted to change to Linux for good. I have my > > pictures (apprx 25’000)on an external SSD drive and they are now all > > organised in darktable and as a big work I have reworked all the > > tags of these photos, which have been growing in these 15 years to a > > giant mess and this was a big work which I could do during the > > lockdown time. The SSD drive is MacOs journaled formatted > > > > For this I have some questions: When I now would change to Linux I > > would have to reformat the SSD drive to fat32 that it can be read > > and written in Linux. After an import to a Linux > > darktable-application would then only the the xmp data which were > > created by dt seen or would the „old“ xmp data, especially all the > > tags, of LR times reappear and so be destroying all the lot of work, > > which would make me reconsider a possible change. > > > > > I would suggest > - not use fat32 - no journal and lot very data secure > - use one of the native linux file systems if you work on linux only > on that machine (I use good old ext4 on my machines) > > Data import: I would simply > - copy the profile of darktable to the new install > - copy the image folder to the newly formated drive home directory > (provided that your images are organised with a main folder and all > subfolder below that). > > After first start go to the collect module in lighttable and select > the "directory" view > You might find your main folder stroked through. > If that's the case, then right click on that entry and chose the new > location > > After that you should be done, everything should be up and running > -- > > regards > Bernhard > > https://www.bilddateien.de > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > -- Bill Wohler <[email protected]> aka <[email protected]> http://www.newt.com/wohler/, GnuPG ID:610BD9AD ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
