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Subject: Re: When I back-up .... Coping my Entire Internal HD to an external HD
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:05:15 +0200
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Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> 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.