Recommended format for external hard disk

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 09/22/2014 02:40 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 10:23 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
>> I gave just bought an external disk to be used on machines running
>> Fedora. Which format would you recommend to format the disk? And what
>> steps should I follow?
>
> More information might help get better answers.

ACK. Much of a recommendation depends upon the use-case you want your 
external disk for.

E.g. as a Linux-only backup drive, I usually use ext4, to exchange data 
with Windows, there hardly is an alternative to ntfs, and to exchange 
data with arbitrary other systems (TVs, MediaPlayers) other restrictions 
may come into play.

Ralf