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

From Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: External hard drive usage. NTFS or other file system?
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Date 2014-07-31 19:44 +0200
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On Thursday 31 July 2014 19:35, Evgenii Sputnik conveyed the following 
to comp.os.linux.misc...

> 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 planning to only use GNU/Linux for accessing that hard drive, 
then why would you create an inferior and non-native filesystem on it 
which doesn't even support UNIX/POSIX permissions and ownerships?

Go with ext4.

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= Aragorn =

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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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