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[Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help: ask anything! (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by anzo@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you have things on the external that precludes you formatting it? You aren't doing it too often, so a tarball might work, but you'll be wasting a lot of time doing it that way. Then again, if it's once a month, that doesn't seem like a huge deal. I just use rsync now and then for my external backup and it doesn't take long at all.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but since my external drive is formatted in exFAT, I can't simply rsync to it. I gotta either partition it, or create a mountable ext4 filesystem image on which I can.