External Hard Drives and UBUNTU

[James Tappin]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:51:23 -0400
Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:

BS> I'd usually reformat it if it's not going to be used on a Windows 
BS> system...ext3 so it carries UID/GUID and permissions.  If cross
BS> platform  use, format or re-format FAT32.

Slow & crummy as it is, FAT32 is also advisable even between Linux boxes
if you have different UID's on different boxes precisely because of the
UID/GUID support in ext3.

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