do I need to format this new external drive

[angels mail]

thank you Dan, your information are really precious.

2008/2/9, Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx>:
>
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:13:37 +0100
> "angels mail" <angels.mails at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Another 'silly' question ... as I'm going to buy a new external hard
> > drive. Does it matter which one I'll choose? For example, I'd like to
> > buy something like this
> >
> http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=351&language=en
> >
> > And now ... I think that it will be useful for me to have ext3 format
> > for backuping my files from Ubuntu, as well as another format - for
> > having my media files to play them on a DVD player.
>
> If windoze isn't expected to mount the filesystems, it's entirely up to
> you.  You chould use ext3, but you might prefer a newer, better
> performing system like reiserfs (what I use) or xfs (potentially
> slightly better performance).  The biggest thing is to make sure you
> can recover if anything goes wrong.  That's why I use reiser -- I trust
> it, and I don't trust ext3 as much.  it's also faster.
>
> if you have to share with windows, you can use ext2 and add support to
> windows for ext2, maybe even ext3 or others (i don't really know).  you
> can also use NTFS or FAT32 if you desire.  NTFS write support in linux
> requires ntfs-3g, a FUSE (filesystem in userspace) utility that has
> full write support.  CAUTION:  i highly, highly recommend you use a
> journaled filesystem, not FAT/VFAT, and not EXT2.  I also recommmend
> you not use NTFS.  If you need windows to read your files too, chances
> are you'll have other computers to read them as well -- put them on a
> fileserver.
>
> > Which format have
> > I to choose? And at the end ... a very newbie question: how to format
> > an external disk? Please, do not judge me to much for that :) I
> > didn't do till now anything like that and I'm not sure if I will make
> > it right :(
>
> All drives are formatted with the same tools, whether  IDE/SATA
> (internal), floppy, pcmcia (usually a converter or pcmcia->ide), USB, or
> as far as I know, Firewire.  Use fdisk (recommended for command liners),
> cfdisk, or a GUI frontend.
>
> > 2008/1/15, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> > >
> > > On 01/14/2008 06:19 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Depends. Do you want to preserve things like permissions when
> > > > copying onto the drive?
> > > >
> > > > If it's >2GB, it won't be FAT16, it will be FAT32, which is
> > > > actually a reasonably efficient, fast FS with good long name
> > > > support. You can back up onto it using DAR, say. Leaving it FAT32
> > > > will mean that it's also accessible from Windows, a Mac or almost
> > > > anything else, which might be an advantage.
> > >
> > > Unless of course you want to save files larger than 4Gb (such as an
> > > Ubuntu DVD). In that case you'll want to use NTFS instead.
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs
> > >
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