[USB SATA connection] Changing file system from NTFS to Ext3

[NoOp]

On 03/18/2010 07:26 AM, J wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13, Liam Proven <snipped> wrote:
...
> 
>> [2] Why not just reformat the external as ext3 or better still for
>> that size ext4, then?
> 
> Agreed.  And I'm pretty sure that's what he wants to do.  It sounds
> like he's taking about converting the partitions on his onboard disks
> over, then he gets into the USB drive and things get muddled from
> there..

Two points:

1. If the external drive is formated as ext4 he won't be able to mount
it from older Ubuntu versions (8.04 etc).
2. He also won't be able to mount it from WinXP using the Ext2fs.sys.

See the 'Ext3 instead of Ext4' thread, specifically:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/211579>