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Hard drive format?

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I’m setting up a new hard drive and formatted it as exFAT. I liked the cross platform support and not having to deal with permissions when mounting the device. BUT it doesn’t support hardlinks, which I want to use for the *arr apps. Is NTFS the best pick, and I’ll just have to live with read only on mac?

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My recommendation would be to use a hard disk in a single computer, and to use a single operating system for a single computer.

Then you pick the most capable, fastest, native FS that fits your bill.

If you need to transmit data between computers, use the network. It’s that it’s there for.

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schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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I’d 2nd this: you’re using it for downloading media, so presumably one of the computers is the one running the actual software that’s doing that. Just share the drive over the network from there, and pick the best-supported FS on that platform.

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hperrin@lemmy.world
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Why are you running servers with a data store on a partition that you mount on multiple operating systems?

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paperd@lemmy.zip
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ZFS?

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corroded@lemmy.world
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I’m a big fan of ZFS, and I use it extensively. For a single hard drive, though, wouldn’t ext4 and a few NFS shares make a lot more sense?

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paperd@lemmy.zip
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zfs is fine on a single drive too, and its cross platform, which OP said they wanted (though not which platforms, which is important here). ext4 is junk on windows and nfs doesn’t work well either for windows, which i assume OP wants because they mention NTFS.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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ZFS.

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VitabytesDev@feddit.nl
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I just use ext4 on everything. It works pretty nicely.

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lemming741@lemmy.world
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It might be time to virtualize.

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