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Re: [LUG] External hard drives

 

These days linux can read and write virtually any file system this
includes NTFS (windows)  which version of linux are you using as that
defines howto reformat to ext3 or 4

Ed

On 17/02/2011 09:51, "Neil Winchurst" <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>When I look at external hard drives on the internet they all seem to
>say 'preformatted for PC's' or 'Windows and Mac ready'. No mention of
>Linux, of course.
>
>So, will they mostly work on Linux?
>
>Will they be formatted in something other that EXT3 or 4? And, if so,
>can they easily be reformatted?
>
>I have Googled on this but find conflicting information.
>
>TIA
>
>Neil
>
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