Which format should I use to format external disk?

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 10:05 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> 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?
>>>
>>>       
>>     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.
>>     
>
> But I am trying to copy a file not owned by root. Therefore, it should
> be possible to copy as normal user.
>
> Paul
>
>   
    Tell me more what your seeing. If you use in a terminal the call:

$ cp file /media/xyz

what does the error message say?

Karl


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