[ale] Seeking Filesystem Guidance

[Phil Turmel]

Just how old is this Mint system?  The "Fuse" format is almost certainly 
NTFS-3g, which has been superceded by native NTFS in modern kernels.

Choose NTFS.  Don't forget the quick or fast mkfs option or you will be 
twiddling your thumbs for a long time.

Do not permit such large driver to be formatted in fat* or vfat.

On 4/29/23 21:34, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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.
> 
>     -- 
>     Stephen R. Blevins