External HD and Windows

[John Wendel]

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