[Leaplist] Hard Drive Formatting

[Jim Hartley]

You should be able to format pretty much any drive however you want. If 
it will NEVER be used on anything but Linux, ext3 is probably the best 
choice. For more flexibility (you MIGHT want to use it with Windoze) use 
FAT32. If it comes formatted you can decide whether to use what's there 
(Linux does NOT play nicely with NTFS) or reformat.

Or repartition and make it half FAT32, half ext3 if that would be best 
for you.

Jim Hartley

Ram K. Singh wrote:
> Ladies and Gents,
>
> I desire to have a Hard Drive that is external forvbackup and use 
> sparingly as in case of using it as Archives. All hard drives come 
> formatted FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS ( I may be wrong in this statement). 
> Would these Hard Drives be a proper medium for my use?
>
> Ram
>
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