External harddrive format for zgemma star h.2s

[freeanipper]

I want to record onto a western digital 1tb external hard drive, do I format the hard drive to Fat32 or exFat, or will any of those formats do?

 

[Willo3092]

It will record to Fat32 or NTFS, not sure about exFat. If you intend to save timeshift to the drive it will need to be initialised to the Linux ext filesystem.

 

[freeanipper]

Thanks for that. Would you have any preference between fat32 and NTFS.

 

[Willo3092]

I go for ext4 every time.

 

[freeanipper]

Lovely stuff. Thanks again Willo3092.

 

[sohail579]

Can I use a SD card for the swap file and time shift and then use a hard drive to record so that i can remover it and watch on my PC too?

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[Willo3092]

Yes, just make sure the sd is ext4 format and the hdd is ntfs. (fat32 has a 4gb filesize limit so hd recordings might be too big).