Preferred file system for flash drives in Linux?

[JustGeorge]

If you were going to use a flash drive as a secondary backup for a linux system, what would be the preferred file system?

 

I'm thinking exfat since this flash drive would also need to be accessible from a Windows machine, should the need arise. 

 

Thoughts?

 

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

ExFat

[Nick H. Supervisor]

ExFat, no contest.

[devHead]

ExFAT is the way to go - accessible to everyone.

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

ExFat. Like the others said, yoiu can transfer it to other OS's.

[i_was_here]

+1 for exFat. It's how I format my USB drive for exactly cross-platform compatibility.

[KaoDome]

So exFAT is the way to go? I'm using NTFS for now, never gave it much of a thought.

 

I think macOS isn't happy with it, but I have none around. In any case as long as there is one that's half decent and works across them all I'm happy 😊

[adrynalyne]

  On 23/04/2022 at 19:35, KaoDome said:

So exFAT is the way to go? I'm using NTFS for now, never gave it much of a thought.

 

I think macOS isn't happy with it, but I have none around. In any case as long as there is one that's half decent and works across them all I'm happy 😊

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Yeah...ntfs has ok support in Linux more or less, but in macOS, ntfs is read-only if memory serves.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

exFat is the way to go for sure; has read/write capability on Windows / Linux/ and macOS