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stragu
Asked: 2017-03-22 14:11:00 +0800 CST

File system for external hard drive: interoperable and open?

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I have a 2TB external hard drive that will primarily be used for backing up important documents and storing big files from an Ubuntu-based distros.

I have had issues before with NTFS as a broken file system would often require to use Windows to fix it, which definitely rules it out for me.

Is there a file system that would be suited for this use, while being both interoperable (i.e. usable on OSX, Windows and GNU/Linux) and (ideally) an open standard?

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1 Answers

  1. Have you ever tried Exfat?

    It's compatible with Windows and OSX, and can be added to Linux by running:

    sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

    It's very popular on sd cards etc.

    Another option is UDF but I've never used it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format

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