Partititioning a BACKUP USB drive

[Michael Cronenworth]

Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On 29.06.2012 20:00, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 06/29/2012 12:54 PM, Jim wrote:
>>> Fedora 17
>>>
>>> Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4
>>> or a ntfs partition ?
>> ext4
>>
> btrfs
> 

If you care about your data, especially for a backup drive, you won't
use btrfs. There is still no, stable, fsck utility for btrfs.

Ext4 is perfect; plus, you can always migrate to btrfs with the
conversion tool once there is a stable btrfs-fsck tool.