External drives

[FarSight Data Systems]

On Monday 21 February 2011 03:16:10 am Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:39:44 -0500
>
> Clay Weber <claydoh at claydoh.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, February 20, 2011 05:24:49 PM Neil Winchurst wrote:
> > > I have been told that a good idea for back-ups is to use an external
> > > hard drive. Do they all work with Kubuntu and does anyone have any
> > > helpful suggestions please? There are so many on the market it is very
> > > confusing.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > Neil
> >
> > Yes, any of them should work just fine. Though some may come with
> > windows- based backup helper software installed, they amount to really,
> > really big thumb drives as far as Kubuntu is concerned :) They probably
> > are all formatted in FAT32 so it is just a  matter of plugging it in and
> > having it show in the device notifier
> >
> > clay
>
> Thanks for that. I could reformat the drive I suppose. Which would be
> better, NTFS or Ext4?
>
If you're backing up a Linux drive, use ext3 or ext4.  NTFS won't give you the 
proper permissions.

Mark
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