Which format should I use to format external disk?

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    If your backing up the whole of your Linux you need root because 
many files are owned by root. So use a root terminal and you will not 
have any mor problems.


Karl


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