Hi
I am about to format an external drive.
I have a 60GB IDE laptop drive in an enclosure full of stuff and it is FAT formatted. I have a blank 120GB SATA laptop drive in an enclosure and I want to format it for use in Linux and Windows and then move everything from the IDE to the SATA.
What is the best format. FAT32 is a bit old and clunky, what about NTFS. If it was just for Linux then I would pick ext3 or ext4.
Simon
On 3 March 2011 18:41, Simon Royal mrsimonroyal@gmail.com wrote:
I am about to format an external drive.
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What is the best format. FAT32 is a bit old and clunky, what about NTFS. If it was just for Linux then I would pick ext3 or ext4.
FAT32 is only clunky and old if you want to store files larger than 4GB. Other than it's fine and it's universally accessible on pretty much all systems. NTFS is alright on Linux these days with the likes of the ntfs-3g fuse driver.. So it depends what kind of files you're going to be storing.
Cheers, Si
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Simon Royal