What kind of SSD Formats Do Raspberry Pi support?

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i recently bought a PI model B+ to Run a Bitcoin Lightning node so i was learning how to use it and stuff like that. Before anything i have to download and sync the bitcoin core software so i was planning to do all that first on my Imac on an old SSD i have. So the questions are:

What kind of formats do Pis support? What kind of format do u suggest me to use in order to later connect that SSD to the PI ?

sorry for the stupid question, complete non techie person here trying to learn!

http://www.simplyembedded.org/archives/filesystems-with-the-raspberry-pi/ — fixer1234, Dec 28 '18 at 12:32
Welcome abaord. You probably ought to have asked this on our sister site https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/ — Mawg says reinstate Monica, Dec 29 '18 at 08:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '18 at 04:13

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Raspbian for Raspberry Pi is Linux based, so I would recommend ext4. If you would like to use the drive on other operating systems and not Linux exclusively, try FAT.

Also, this website has a really good table that compares some file systems.

answered Dec 29 '18 at 04:13

William

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Good answer (+1), although realistically, one tends to download an image such as [Raspbian](https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/) and uncompress it, so that the fiel system is already chosen. – Mawg says reinstate Monica Dec 29 '18 at 08:53

What kind of SSD Formats Do Raspberry Pi support?

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