do I need to format this new external drive

[NoOp]

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