Hi Everyone,
I am migrating an external firewire drive from Mac use over to a computer with Mint installed.
I have done quite a bit of searching and I am still not quite sure what the "best" file system for the external drive would be for use with Linux Mint.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? It seems like Linux will read and write to NTFS, Fat32, HFS+, ext3/4 and a bunch of other formats.
I have my internal drive formatted as ext3.
Thank you for your feedback.
Troy
Is there a "best" file system for external hard drive?
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troyj
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piratesmack
Re: Is there a "best" file system for external hard drive?
Ext3 is fine if you only want to use the external drive with Linux.
If you also want to access it from Windows PC's and Mac's then I'd use NTFS.
If you also want to access it from Windows PC's and Mac's then I'd use NTFS.
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Re: Is there a "best" file system for external hard drive?
I second ntfs. You get large file support and it can be read by Linux, Windows and Mac.
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