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Subject: Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system?
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 12:54:29 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:35:30 -0400 Evgenii Sputnik
> <esputnik7788@gmail.com> 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?
> 
> If you are only going to access it from GNU/Linux systems, you really
> should be using a GNU/Linux file system, such as ext[234] or xfs or the
> like. The is NO advantage to using NTFS if the disk will never interact
> with a mess-windows system. If you were 'sharing' with a Mac (eg OS-X),
> using hpfs+ would make sense. You should only use NTFS (or FAT) if you
> intend to use the disk with a mess-windows system.
> 
No! it's not about what you "intend". You can't escape Micro$loth
touching you. I'm very disapointed with the 500GB Toshiba USB-2/3
that I got. IIRC, I left the first part of it as the default type:
NTFS?  
Partitions 2,3 as ext* became corrupted; perhaps due to the
USB-3 cable.