Re: External HD and Windows
On 09/21/2013 08:45 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
On 09/20/2013 09:14:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 09/21/13 12:07, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>> I seem to recall that there is a problem with the formatting of some
> (all?) external HDs (eSATA and/or USB) that are set up for Windows in
> such a way as to make them useless for Linux.
>> Could someone refresh me? Thanks.
> Could you be thinking along the lines of something like this?
>
> Windows makes use of the FAT, NTFS, exFAT and ReFS file systems (the
> latter is only supported and usable in Windows Server 2012.
Well, that would be a problem. Of course, my first action would be to format the disk for
ext3.
Why would you choose ext3 over ext4?
John