External HD and Windows

Geoffrey Leach geoff at hughes.net
Sat Sep 21 16:56:12 UTC 2013


On 09/21/2013 08:54:50 AM, John Wendel wrote:
> 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?

I wouldn't.


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