Any Linux drive type (eg. ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, etc.) is much easier to use than anything belonging to Windows (FAT, vFAT, exFAT or NTFS).
For networked drives nfs will be much easier to use than samba/cifs.
An ext4 drive will carry the permissions system from your usual / /bin /usr /var /tmp (etc.) file directories with the drive. You need to pick a mount point which will usually either be /mnt or /media as the place to mount your new removable drive.
Get used to ownership, group ownership and public, get used to setting the permission bits sudo chmod u+wx, o-rwx /media/mountedfilesystem/foo.bar. You can't administer any Linux operating system without understanding that piece. If you can't grasp that stuff you've bought the wrong computer.
If you mount a Windows filesystem you will get worse performance than mounting any flavour of Linux filesystem.
For networked drives nfs will be much easier to use than samba/cifs.
An ext4 drive will carry the permissions system from your usual / /bin /usr /var /tmp (etc.) file directories with the drive. You need to pick a mount point which will usually either be /mnt or /media as the place to mount your new removable drive.
Get used to ownership, group ownership and public, get used to setting the permission bits sudo chmod u+wx, o-rwx /media/mountedfilesystem/foo.bar. You can't administer any Linux operating system without understanding that piece. If you can't grasp that stuff you've bought the wrong computer.
If you mount a Windows filesystem you will get worse performance than mounting any flavour of Linux filesystem.
Statistics: Posted by DougieLawson — Sat Jan 13, 2024 3:17 am
