LorenAmelang<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@dmerej" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dmerej</span></a></span> Thanks for confirming my lack of confidence in filesystems not native to Linux. </p><p>Actually my new drive is exFAT. I dug a bit and found Arch sees all permissions granted on every file on the drive. Also, stat -f shows the actual cluster Block size: 131072, which wastes a ton of space for things like tiny Node modules! (All the other disk info commands show 4096, which is definitely wrong!) </p><p>So I've set up a separate little EXT4 SSD for the 'systemy' parts of my backup. </p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/backupDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>backupDrive</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/exFAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exFAT</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/clusterSize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clusterSize</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/filePermissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filePermissions</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/symlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symlink</span></a></p>