Recommended format for external hard disk

[Nathan Schwarz]

Definitely a journaling filesystem like ntfs, ext3 or ext4.

If windows should also have access to it you're gonna have to use ntfs,
otherwise ext4 is the way to go.

Check it also for bad sectors w/ `badblocks`, better to be safe than
sorry.

- Nathan

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On 09-22/10:23, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
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