What do you format your USB/external storage to

[DexTheDog]

I use the fat format but it would be nice to know what other people use?

 

[stan]

FAT32 for smaller flash drives, and either FAT32 or NTFS for larger external hard drives. This is the easiest compatibility for both Linux and Windows.

Folks who use Timeshift as a backup solution have to format their storage (drive or partition) as either EXT4 or BTRFS, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Deleted member 128018]

FAT32 for smaller flash drives, and either FAT32 or NTFS for larger external hard drives. This is the easiest compatibility for both Linux and Windows.

Same here for USB flash drives.

Folks who use Timeshift as a backup solution have to format their storage (drive or partition) as either EXT4 or BTRFS, if I'm not mistaken.

1st thing I learned when doing my 1st Timeshift snapshot.

 

[captain-sensible]

Folks who use Timeshift as a backup solution have to format their storage (drive or partition) as either EXT4 or BTRFS, if I'm not mistaken.

your not mistaken , my SD card is ext4

 

[KGIII]

FAT32 or Ext4.

 

[kc1di]

Fat32 or ext4 here also depends what I'm going to do with it.

 

[MatsuShimizu]

Most of the time, I use ext4. However, for one USB drive, I encrypted it with LUKS. I use the Disks utility that comes with my Linux system to encrypt into LUKS.

 

[f33dm3bits]

The only external usb disk I currently have in use has an ext4 filesystem which is not encrypted but I use borgbackup to write encrypted backups to it.

 

[Brickwizard]

Pendrives for secure storage of picts/docs etc are Fats pendrives for persistent installations are ext4 as are all my external drives,

 

[Condobloke]

No.1 ext4
no.2 ext4
no.3 ext4
no.4 (2TB) one half is ntfs, the other half is ext3/ext4