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   Carlos E.R. to Anssi Saari   
   Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire   
   17 Mar 25 19:23:03   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-03-17 15:05, Anssi Saari wrote:   
   > Dan Purgert  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-03-15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >>> For example, are you allowed to put NTFS on a hot-pluggable volume?   
   >>> Somehow, I don’t think so.   
   >>   
   >> Practically every USB stick in existence would like to disagree.   
   >   
   > Those are usually FAT formatted. FAT32 or the newer exFAT. No issue   
   > reformatting to NTFS though.   
   >   
   > I've actually found NTFS on a USB SSD to be surprisingly widely   
   > supported on media players and TVs and such. I've used it on Android   
   > too. So NTFS has become my go-to portable FS.   
      
   exFAT is better, but few TV sets support it, while many support NTFS.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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