HD 1TB or greater Ubuntu 11.04 64bit (SOLVED)

[J]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:08, Johan Scheepers <johansche at telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Sorry for a bad question.:-[

No worries, just remember that a well written, detailed question is
more likely to get you a well written, detailed answer (plus we aren't
mind readers, so can't really guess at your intention without the
proper context).

> Thanks for a really good answer.:-)
>
> I am looking for a new laptop and when bought will pop out the windows drive
> and store it.
> Pop in this new drive and do a multi install of Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15
> and maybe Mandriva or any distro that may take my fancy.
> Good day
> Johan S

Heh, that's what you should have said originally... so yeah, you'll be
fine.  I did something similar for a while with my netbook.  I had a
regular 500GB SATA drive with Windows and Ubuntu on it, and I'd swap
that out for a 64GB SSD drive to do testing and such, so I would
constantly swap them in and out and never had a problem.

And as I and others have said, Ubuntu (and Linux in general) has no
problem using those large drives, just be wary of what filesystem you
use on them.

For my linux systems, I stick with ext3 for now because it's tried and
true (I may have on in XFS too somewhere) but if you want to share a
disk via USB with a windows system, you'll want it formatted with
NTFS.  I think there are EXT3/4 drivers for Windows, but it's better
to just stick with NTFS, IMHO.

Good luck!