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

[J]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 14:26, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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>

Yep... I should have been a little more specific about that.  I don't
use ext4, personally... I'm just in the habit of assuming generic
format = ext3, old habits die hard...