External drives

[plberd-kubuntu at yahoo.com.ar]

> > 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?
> 
> Neil

It all depends, are you going to use it on Windows too? If yes, then you don't 
really have a choice: NTFS but it's not that greate if you need linux 
permissions. If you don't care about Windows ext file systems are what you need, 
they work really good and have a lot of useful features.

PL