New ask Hacker News story: How do you format your external drive in 2020 to use with both: Linux and macOS?
How do you format your external drive in 2020 to use with both: Linux and macOS?
4 by lovelyviking | 2 comments on Hacker News.
If you really want big external drive capable of being used safely(!) at least by both Linux and macOS : What is the best and safest format to use for big files/backups/disk images etc? Is it possible at all? I heard many bad things about ExFat, that is not safe and invitation for failures? But what is the alternative then? Do we have one in 2020? Is it practical to use zfs for instance? In general, what is the safest format to use for storage that will be readable in some observable future by different OSes?
4 by lovelyviking | 2 comments on Hacker News.
If you really want big external drive capable of being used safely(!) at least by both Linux and macOS : What is the best and safest format to use for big files/backups/disk images etc? Is it possible at all? I heard many bad things about ExFat, that is not safe and invitation for failures? But what is the alternative then? Do we have one in 2020? Is it practical to use zfs for instance? In general, what is the safest format to use for storage that will be readable in some observable future by different OSes?
