automounting external hard drive

[James Tappin]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:08:50 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

MV> It is probably formatted with NTFS of FAT32. 
MV> 
MV> External disks usually come preformatted with FAT32, but in this
MV> case this would be weird since Linux did not have problems with
MV> FAT32 for many years, and these disks ara always mounted read-only.
MV> Writing to NTFS was a problem for a long time, which has been solved
MV> quite recently.

Big disks like the OP's 500Gb are more often NTFS, certainly my !Tb was
(since that one was intended as a backup unit not a transfer system, I
just reformatted it to EXT3)

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