Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system?

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From	Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
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Subject	Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system?
Date	Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:08:19 +0100
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On 31/07/14 18:35, Evgenii Sputnik wrote:
> Hello users.
>
> I have an external hard drive and a question. Should I use NTFS on it,
> if I plan access only from GNU/Linux, or there is an advantage on using
> ext2 or ext4 file systems then?

NTFS works OK with modern linuxes IME.

But another option is ext2 and an ext2 filesystem driver for Windows 
(thinking XP, one worked quite well, YMMV).

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External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Evgenii Sputnik <esputnik7788@gmail.com> - 2014-07-31 13:35 -0400
  Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-07-31 19:44 +0200
    Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Evgenii Sputnik <esputnik7788@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 07:45 +0700
      Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-08-29 03:37 +0200
      Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-28 21:09 -0500
        Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-08-29 21:16 +0200
    Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 02:46 +0000
      Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-08-29 05:14 +0200
        Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2014-08-29 14:45 +0100
          Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-29 15:19 +0000
            Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-08-30 14:42 +0200
              Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-30 09:09 -0500
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-08-30 17:41 +0200
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-08-30 15:21 -0700
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 17:13 +0000
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-31 13:24 -0500
                Is VirtualBox "lame"? (Was: something else...) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-08-31 20:23 +0000
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? (Was: something else...) Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-31 15:51 -0500
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-31 23:58 +0000
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-08-31 21:54 -0500
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-01 07:54 +0100
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-09-01 08:53 +0200
                Re: Is VirtualBox "lame"? (Was: something else...) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-01 07:47 +0100
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 21:00 +0000
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-31 18:50 +0000
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 21:01 +0000
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-01 00:06 +0000
                Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-01 07:50 +0100
              Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen@gmail.com> - 2014-08-31 03:18 +0000
  Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-07-31 12:54 -0500
    Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 12:39 +0000
      Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2014-08-14 08:15 -0700
  Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-07-31 19:08 +0100
    Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2014-07-31 14:27 -0500
  Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2014-07-31 12:43 -0700

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