On Dec 15, 2007 9:48 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> 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. Thanks to both. I have formatted the external disk with ext3, and it mounts well. However, when I try to copy something in it, I do not have permission for that. How can I overcome this? Where should I change the permissions? Paul
