[CS-FSLUG] External HD Reformat

[Josiah Ritchie]

Nope, I've done it with various external drives flash based or
otherwise. It is no problem.

JSR/

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:
> I have an older USB Maxtor Personal Storage drive which has been replaced. I
> am considering using it for dedicated Linux backup. Current format is NTFS.
> Any particular reason I can't or shouldn't reformat this 160GB to ext3 or
> ext4? It will simplify permissions when copying files back and forth.
>
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