New External Hard-Drive format issue

[MirJafar Ali]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:27 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 18:58, M. Milanuk <memilanuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wow.  Someone is apparently off their meds...
>
> Probably a good reason why he's "A former tech" ;-)
>
> To answer the OPs questions though,
>
> Question 1:
> If you are going to use that disk at all on a non-Linux system (e.g.
> Windows) you can not format it using any of the Linux filesystems.
>
> If you have ANY need or desire to use that disk between both windows
> and linux systems, you need to either partition it to create a windows
> partition (NTFS) and a Linux partition (ext2, ext3 or ext4), or you
> need to just keep the whole thing formatted as NTFS: the modern NTFS
> support in Linux is pretty good, definitely not like the old days
> where writing to an NTFS partition could corrupt the entire partition
> or worse ;-)
>
> Question 2:
> If you repartition and reformat, then yes, you'll lose all that
> stuff... but then again, do you even really need it?  Are you HONESTLY
> going to use it, or just worried about keeping it around because you
> MIGHT need it some day?
>
> There are plenty of other cross-platform encryption tools out there
> (TrueCrypt being my current favorite).  As for backup, why can't you
> use the disk as it is?  I have a 500GB disk (NTFS formatted) that I
> use between one of my linux boxes and my wifes XP box.  Her automated
> backup software (whatever it was that came with the disk) backs up her
> stuff into one directory, and my rsync script backs up my stuff into a
> different directory.  All works well, no problems.
>
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Hello,

Thanks for a good advice. I was extremely nervous when I received earlier
angry and impolite
answer from someone.  I just wanted to know something and ask the community.
Perhaps my
question wasn't that great. Why people use bad words ? I don't know.

Mir
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