Which format should I use to format external disk?

[Paul Smith]

On Dec 15, 2007 9:48 PM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> > I have bought an external hard disk basically for backups. Which
> > format should I use to format it?
>
> Mine came already formatted as NTFS, but I decided that since I was
> backing up a linux system, I'd just feel better if I used ext3,
> so I reformatted it to that for no particular technical reason :-).
>
> Note that you can get to NTFS from linux by installing ntfs-3g
> and ext2/3 from windows by installing Ext2IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/),
> so either filesystem can work for windows or for linux.

Thanks to both. I have formatted the external disk with ext3, and it
mounts well. However, when I try to copy something in it, I do not
have permission for that. How can I overcome this? Where should I
change the permissions?

Paul