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Re: [LUG] external hard disk recommendations

 

On 28/07/10 13:59, tom wrote:

You'll find most devices are NTFS formatted - they will work with linux
quite happily but you'll have to
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /yourmountpoint
to write to it

Or you could do mkfs.ext? /dev/sd?1 as applicable before trying to mount it.
Depending on your setup it may automount when plugged in anyway if
there's a recognisable filesystem there.

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