Empty directory not getting deleted in external harddisk

Koh Choon Lin 2choonlin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 17:39:37 UTC 2011


Hi

>> I just remembered that I also had this problem when I first started out
>> with Linux. The best way is to definitely reformat to a linux supported
>> filesystem to avoid data corruption and journalling errors.
>
> But then would it be used in Windows also? (since other members would
> occasionally use the same external hard disk in windows too).

Use FAT/FAT32/NTFS for all external drives unless you plan to use them
in a non-Windows environment permanently.



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Regards
Koh Choon Lin




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