External drives

[Doug]

On 02/23/2011 04:21 AM, plberd-kubuntu at yahoo.com.ar 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?
>>
>> 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
>
Look at :  
http://www.soluvas.com/read-browse-explore-open-ext2-ext3-ext4-partition-filesystem-from-windows-7/

for some useful information about reading extx filesystems from Win7.  
Read the comments also.

--doug

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