[Q] What are the few best Linux FStypes for USB mecha drives in 2023?

hd_scania · 08-10-2023, 08:26 AM

I still have 3 recent-weekly emptied USB mecha drives and 2 aren’t in use for anything, and all 3 are no more for anything more than ‘‘pink comedy dramas’’
And everything serious are on NVMe, USB, and SATA SSD’s and the most recently ordered one is an Samsung T7 Shield USB-C SSD
When only for use of comedy videos on my final 3 ever leftover (and no more for seriously) USB mecha drives, which Linux FStypes are good in 2023 for such an use?

fatmac · 08-10-2023, 12:05 PM

I use ext4 on everything I can, HDD, SSD, SD Cards, pendrives.

For those systems that don't like ext4, (BSD in particular), I use ext2.

Emerson · 08-10-2023, 05:58 PM

I use F2FS for thumbdrives as it was designed for such drives. Contemporary SSD drives do not need it.

hd_scania · 08-10-2023, 07:25 PM

But i’m also using F2FS on external SSD’s anyway (On Samsung Androids i’m forced to be formatted to exFAT which those devices don’t recognize F2FS or ext2), but isn’t planning to use F2FS as well on mecha drives

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Originally Posted by Emerson

I use F2FS for thumbdrives as it was designed for such drives. Contemporary SSD drives do not need it.

hd_scania · 08-10-2023, 07:28 PM

Heard OpenZFS? I have the 3 final big partition per Samsung SSD in use of OpenZFS datasets
OpenZFS for internally encrypted and F2FS for externally encrypted

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Originally Posted by fatmac

I use ext4 on everything I can, HDD, SSD, SD Cards, pendrives.
For those systems that don't like ext4, (BSD in particular), I use ext2.

Emerson · 08-10-2023, 08:02 PM

Holy macro.
I remember when first version of Microsoft Outlook came out. It placed the cursor on top when user hit reply. There was a discussion on Usenet, everybody expected MS to fix it in their next version. Never happened, top posting was born.
But top posting in forums like this is extreme, rarely seen.

hd_scania · 08-17-2023, 06:26 AM

Despite samely m$ products, but fstypes like exFAT and NTFS go open sourced, whereas web tools like Outlook.com and Bing never; Windows and GHub even go worse than the rest of m$ products

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

Holy macro.
I remember when first version of Microsoft Outlook came out. It placed the cursor on top when user hit reply. There was a discussion on Usenet, everybody expected MS to fix it in their next version. Never happened, top posting was born.
But top posting in forums like this is extreme, rarely seen.