[CentOS] Backup of large filesystems >500GB

On 2013-05-27, Mike Watson <mikew at crucis.net> wrote:
> I'll check again, maybe NTSF. It's a singlepartition 1TB HD so it can't
> be FAT32.

Unless you have a desperate need for this disk to be readable by
Windows, I would definitely make an ext3, ext4, or xfs filesystem on
that USB drive.  It is absolutely not worth the headache you'll have
trying to restore properly from NTFS or FAT??.

--keith

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