Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what steps should I follow? Thanks in advance, Paul -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what steps should I follow? More information might help get better answers. Such as whether you're after

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/22/2014 02:40 PM, Tim wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what steps should I follow? More information might help get better

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Nathan Schwarz
Definitely a journaling filesystem like ntfs, ext3 or ext4. If windows should also have access to it you're gonna have to use ntfs, otherwise ext4 is the way to go. Check it also for bad sectors w/ `badblocks`, better to be safe than sorry. - Nathan -- /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / - against

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote: E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange data with arbitrary other systems (TVs, MediaPlayers) other restrictions may come

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/22/14 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote: E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange data with arbitrary other systems (TVs,

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Monday, September 22, 2014 10:41:37 PM Ed Greshko wrote: Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? Maybe it is because I started using systems when disk storage was more expensive. But I've always either used tar or cpio compressed backups. This way, no

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
for external hard disk Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org mailto:users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=unsubscribe mailto:users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org?subject=subscribe On 09/22/14 22:11, Sudhir Khanger wrote

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 07:41:20PM +0530, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Monday, September 22, 2014 02:51:15 PM Ralf Corsepius wrote: E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange data with arbitrary

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? Yes, at least I do. When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole archive useless. So therefore I just copy the whole thing. It's easy, reliable and fast. -- users

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread ergodic
I do too. Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd - Original Message - On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Does anyone actually just copy files from their system to a backup drive? Yes, at least I do. When data is compressed, a single bit flip can render te whole archive useless. So

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:21:05PM -0400, ergodic wrote: I do too. Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd me too. Using rsnapshot backing up to a locally-attached esata raid-1 device. - Original Message - On 22.09.2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Does anyone actually just copy files from

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 22.09.2014, ergodic wrote: Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd In my case, it's all very simple. I'm using rsync -avxHSAX --delete /source/ /target after having done an integrity check. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options:

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread ergodic
I prefer dcfldd for complete partitions because it does not change the partition UUID. You can also copy the partition to a file eg: foo.img - Original Message - On 22.09.2014, ergodic wrote: Mostly I use rsync and dcfldd In my case, it's all very simple. I'm using rsync

Re: Recommended format for external hard disk

2014-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what steps should I follow? More