On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 09:49:53AM +0100, Maja Reberc wrote: > Does anyone recommend FAT32-formatted 1 TB external HDDs for > OS-portable backups (using archive splitting to bypass the 4 GB limit)? > I've heard FAT32 is very inefficient with big partitions. I currently > have a mess of ext4 for Linux, ZFS (yes ...) for FreeBSD, and nothing > yet for OpenBSD (sadly, my favourite OS does not support redshift on my > Nvidia card, and that is a requirement for my eyes).
I use a 2TB FAT32-formatted USB HDD for portable backups. The archives are splitted scrypt-encrypted gzipped GNU tarballs so I can read them on virtually any machine. I use GNU tar because of extra long filenames I don't control, otherwise I would prefer the POSIX ustar format. It works just fine for my purposes.
