Author: nisp1953 Date: To: dng Subject: Re: [DNG] Backup methods for Devuan
On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM Kevin Chadwick via Dng
<dng@???> wrote: >
> 28 May 2024 19:50:39 nisp1953 via Dng <dng@???>:
>
> > I did what you suggested and bought a 2 TB USB drive. I formatted it
> > for Ext2 fs.It has to be readable by my OpenBSD computer also. OpenBSD
> > can read and write to ext2.
>
> Hopefully OpenBSDs ext2 driver has had some fixes as I have found it to crash the system many years ago. I found ntfs_3g to be more reliable on OpenBSD but quite slow.
I couldn't get OpenBSD to format the drive as ext2 so I did it in
Devuan. Iwas able to get it to mount as ext2 after i gave it a proper
disklabel.