filesystems on USB hard drives?

[Steve Flynn]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> Are USB hard drives as flexible with regard to partitioning and
> filesystems as internal drives?  (I mean, can you partition them any
> way you want and use any GNU/Linux-compatible filesystems, including
> luks?)  I expect the answer is yes, but I'm just curious before I buy
> one.

Yup - you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between a USB
mounted drive and something internal with regards to partitioning.
Device names will change but as far as you're concerned, no different.

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Steve
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