Re: [LUG] External hard drives

[L Smith <lhs47crewe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ony one I had problem with was on Linpus (Acer Linux netbooks) not being able write to ntfs, there was a download avaible to correct this. Other wise I have never had any problems writing to exteral hard drives.

--- On Thu, 17/2/11, Edwin Rhodes <edwin_rhodes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Edwin Rhodes <edwin_rhodes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LUG] External hard drives
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, 17 February, 2011, 10:03

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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