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From: Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
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).