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How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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I have decided to format my Wd My Book Essiential 500gb usb harddrive (the old model) in to ext 4 , but mint 8 64 can only format my harddrive in ext3,
when i right click and choice format. How do i format my Harddrive in to EXT4
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Brian49

Re: How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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The Palimpsest disk utility, installed by default in Mint 8, can do this, if the idea is to format the USB drive from within Mint. I also use this utiliity for mounting USB drives, as Nautilus doesn't seem to perform well with them.
gasolin

Re: How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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I am now trying Gparted and it seems to work !
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Re: How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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why ext4 or ext3? there only ext2 with journaling? just takes up more room :D
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Re: How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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Carl wrote:why ext4 or ext3? there only ext2 with journaling? just takes up more room :D
I have seen test where ext 4 is faster then ext 3. I now have a problem accessing my harddrive, i can't move my movies over to my harddrive.
I just want every computer that can read ext 4 to be able to see what's on(don't think that's a problem) the harddrive and be able to ad new data(movies)
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Re: How to format my usb harddrive to EXT4

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Now you know why you can't go to BestBuy and pick up a ext2/3/4 formatted usb drive.

When you insert an extx usb device it automounts with ownership = root:root and permissions of 0755. This is completely different from how a fat32 or ntfs usb device automounts.

You'll need to do a sudo chmod 0777 /media/whatever initially so you can write to the device. But it gets worse.

When you give it to sally and sally saves a file to it the permissions will likely be sally:sally 0644
Sally can read and write to it and others can only read, When she gives it back to you your system has no clue who sally is. So now you need to do a

sudo chmod -R 0777 /media/whatever so that the permissions on all saved files are writeable.
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