<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Monday 21 February 2011 03:16:10 am Neil Winchurst wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:39:44 -0500 > > Clay Weber <claydoh@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 -- </body></html>