Which format should I use to format external disk?

[Paul Smith]

On Dec 15, 2007 10:05 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >>> I have bought an external hard disk basically for backups. Which
> >>> format should I use to format it?
> >>>
> >> Mine came already formatted as NTFS, but I decided that since I was
> >> backing up a linux system, I'd just feel better if I used ext3,
> >> so I reformatted it to that for no particular technical reason :-).
> >>
> >> Note that you can get to NTFS from linux by installing ntfs-3g
> >> and ext2/3 from windows by installing Ext2IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/),
> >> so either filesystem can work for windows or for linux.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks to both. I have formatted the external disk with ext3, and it
> > mounts well. However, when I try to copy something in it, I do not
> > have permission for that. How can I overcome this? Where should I
> > change the permissions?
> >
>     If your backing up the whole of your Linux you need root because
> many files are owned by root. So use a root terminal and you will not
> have any mor problems.

But I am trying to copy a file not owned by root. Therefore, it should
be possible to copy as normal user.

Paul