Just a thought, but not counting the flash drive,  what are the size of your disks?

I usually use a backup drive bigger than all my drives, that way I can keep older versions of my backups.

I do a daily rsync of my data files and then tar them to a single file.

Plus I make an fsarchiver copy of the OS drive.

This way if I mess something up and a backup happens before I realize it, I can get an older good copy.

On Sep 16, 2016 5:24 AM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I was sitting here considering how one names drives. I did it once but it was at least a year ago and my memory is bad (at it's best). And so I was going to google 'name filesystem' or something like that when that little voice inside my head cried out 'label'. So I opened a terminal and 'apropos label' and discovered that little voice inside my head can sometimes be right!

Anyways, there are a few options I could use. I still want to retain msdos properties so I can switch it between machines and..... wait! This is for my backup drive on a 64gig sd card. So I can make it a linux filesystem!

So then:

first make a partition on the device with cfdisk (ref linux fromscratch) then

     mkfs.ext2 <device> -L<name>

Do I need to do anything else because of the size of the card?

Should I do a different filesystem type?

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