Re: [LUG] External hard drives

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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Depending on your distro you may find that you can just plug them in if they're pre-formatted to NTFS or FAT32 although yes you can re-format them.  Possibly the easiest way is to use gparted (should be in your distro repositories), delete the existing partition and create a new Linux partition formatted to ext3, ext4 or whatever file system you want.

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