Relative Noob here. Running latest Manjaro 24 KDE. I have a recently cleaned SSD (no data, no partitions) installed as an additional drive for my PC. Apologies in advance for my ignorance, but I need to partition this drive so I can direct my Timeshift to it as a backup. I presume I can do this via KDE Partition Manager, but need a little help as to the particulars (i.e. what format, etc.). Seems like a pretty simple process, but I don’t want to screw it up. Thanks in advance for your help
first post your system infos:
inxi --admin --verbosity=5 --filter --no-host --width
Second: Choose Rsync Option in Timeshift.
Third: A external disk for a Timeshift snapshot gives you more security (think about overvoltage/lightning strike, randsomware attack a.s.o).
There are pretty fast external SSD’s available today.
Downside is: To be fair, always connect/disconnect a external drive from USB takes a little time, so for some lazy people, a second Internal drive for timeshift is understandable.
It really depends, how important is safety for you… so its a individual decision.
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I’d recommend ext4 for simplicity. Yes KDE Partition Manager should be fine. I use it when I want a GUI editor.
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So I can learn, why ext4 vs. Fat32 for example? What would be the pros and cons?Glad to hear KDE Partition Manager is a good GUI option.
Good Point.
Timeshift required ext4 because its a Linux Filesystem and respect and can store the required userrights.
Thats not possible with fat32
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Excellent. Thanks for the info. Always something to learn here.
And cheap USB3 to SATA cables, which in my experience work well. Didn’t take long to transfer my system to a new SSD using one.
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Microsoft-style filesystems do not support POSIX permissions and file ownership, and if you want to make backups of your system, then you need to have a filesystem that supports this POSIX information.
Please read the following two tutorials — they are long, but informative… 
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Im even still use my external samsung T5 SSD for my Manjaro install.
I bought it 5 year’s ago only to gave Linux a chance, but its running so fast and stable… there was no need to switch for me for a internal drive for a new Manjaro install.
I only use a 2TB Corsair NVMe 4.0 drive for gaming under Linux.
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Good read. I knew the two systems were different (thus the switch to Linux in the first place), now I have a baseline as to why and how. Thank you
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I was genuinely surprised myself at how fast this was. Transferring ~800G of data from the internal spinning rust (inc. cloning all the partitions except / which I had to transfer manually), mostly done at a Pub sitting (and finished, GRUB and UUIDs fixed etc.) … with the first run before last bell!
I had already put the SSD in the machine for its final bits-and-bobs though.
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