Re: Which format should I use to format external disk?

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On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:32:42 +0000
"Paul Smith" <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have bought an external hard disk basically for backups. Which
> format should I use to format it?

Mine came already formatted as NTFS, but I decided that since I was
backing up a linux system, I'd just feel better if I used ext3,
so I reformatted it to that for no particular technical reason :-).

Note that you can get to NTFS from linux by installing ntfs-3g
and ext2/3 from windows by installing Ext2IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/),
so either filesystem can work for windows or for linux.


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