Filesystem for USB drive?

1st Official Post

    I'm setting up a simple RPi3/LE based mediaplayer for a friend and will copy media (movies & TV shows) to a USB drive that will only used for this purpose.

    What filesystem is recommended as 1'st choice for the external drive?

    NTFS, EXT3, EXT4 or something else?

    Just to keep it as simple and as stable as possible.

    • Official Post

    If the USB drive is only used on LE then EXT4 is best, but this is not readable from Windows or macOS. NTFS and exFAT are the two cross-platform "portable" filesystems. Both are supported and should be trouble free.