External HD and Windows

[Geoffrey Leach]

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.