[ale] Seeking Filesystem Guidance

[Jim Kinney]

This is complicated by lack of data about the other system the new drive
gets plugged into.

Let's start with fuse. It's not a filesystem format. It's a mounting method
that allows user level control. It's quite generic in that it understands
many types of filesystems. Odds are high the format of the drive is likely
some windows variant. Often the dmesg output that occurs after plugging in
an external drive includes the filesystem type.  dmesg > before; plug in
drive; dmesg > after; diff before after should show easy info.

If the drive were never used anywhere but Linux, ext4 is a solid choice.
But using it with an external blu-ray will require compatibility. If it
needs ntfs, load in the ntfs-3g tool chain and format it as ntfs. As that
tool chain is typically using fuse to mount an ntfs drive, it's highly
likely the existing drive is ntfs.

On Sat, Apr 29, 2023, 6:51 PM Stephen R. Blevins via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

>      I have a terabyte external drive i got from my step-son.  Linux
> Mint claims it is in FUSE format.  I use it for both data storage and
> for A/V media storage.  I do like the fact that I can mount it and write
> to it from Linux Mint, *and* that our BlueRay player can also read it
> and display .mkv files correctly from it.
>
>      I just purchased a couple of terabyte drives (from Microcenter,
> where else).  Their startup instructions assume a Winders environment,
> claiming that Winders will automagically create a filesystem on them (I
> assume in NTFS format).
>
>      My request for guidance is, "If I format them from Linux, what
> filesystem format should I select?"
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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> Stephen R. Blevins
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