Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread Caleb Herbert
Yes, ext4 for hard disks and ext2 for flash. And usually encrypted. For cross-platform unencrypted storage, I would like to avoid exFAT or NTFS. I have been thinking of using UDF, Universal Disk Format. It preserves all the features in a Unix file system, but is usable by Windows and macOS. I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread publiclewdness
I use BTRFS on any drive aside from my OS. For my OS I use whichever the installer uses by default unless it gives me a choice (usually EXT4 although Trisquel uses XFS I believe). I haven't experienced any severe issue on any file system I have used over the years. Maybe that makes me lucky.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread xliang9550
ext2 for flash media and ext4 for hard disks. I sometimes use NTFS too. (GNU/Linux has better NTFS support than Losedows.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread erbperbp
@Magic Banana: Thank you for your comment @Centurino: Thank you for your comment. @Jaret: as far as I can remember it means data corruption due to aging of the storing media.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread vas1980i
What is a "bit rot"?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-28 Thread centurino84
I use Btrfs because it transparently protects data from bit rot and has a very storage-efficient backup solution built-in. No stability issues so far. Then again, I've been using Trisquel for less than three weeks.

[Trisquel-users] Best file system for storing devices to be used with Trisquel Flidas

2020-05-27 Thread erbperbp
Which is/are it/they? Why? Thanks in advance for your opinion.