On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 13:54 -0400, Jim wrote: > Fedora 17 > > Partitioning a External Backup USB hard drive, Should it be a /home ext4 > or a ntfs partition ? It depends upon it's use. Strictly a linux drive btrfs or ext4, if you plan on extracting files on to a Windows machine, better make in NTFS but YMMV