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Re: [LUG] External hard drives

 

On 17/02/11 09:51, Neil Winchurst 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?

Yes.

Will they be formatted in something other that EXT3 or 4? And, if so,
can they easily be reformatted?

Yes, and yes.

Typically they will be formatted in FAT32, but possibly NTFS.

Under linux they just appear as another drive (e.g. /dev/sdd), which can be partitioned and formatted as usual.

Anthony
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