On 29/08/2021 20.14, Bill Swisher wrote:

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An external disk, formatted exfat, perhaps, would work very nicely to exchange files between OSes or computers.

I stick to ntfs, it works better across different things.  As an example, my TV's don't work with exfat but do with ntfs.

That is true, I have one tv tuner, brand new, that doesn't do exfat :-( However, the exfat support in Linux I think is better than ntfs. It is documented by M$, maybe even opened.

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Small, rotating rust disks, can be purchased quite cheap nowdays.

I carry 2 with me when I travel.  A 2TB and a 5TB.  The small one for music and videos, plugs into the USB connector on a TV, and the larger one for the latest, encrypted, backups.  I have another set that's off-site.

For travel I prefer SSD, more robust to vibrations. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))