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Hi,
I've been having some issues with my external (NTFS) drive: it's read only. And reading on the internet only scares me.
This because I've seen a lot of people writing about the lack of proper NTFS support in linux and the potential risk of data loss.
So i was wondering, if i were to reformat my external usb drive, what format should I consider? Ext3/Ext4?
Thanks in advance!
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It depends on what you are looking to do with it. If you decide to go ext3 or ext4, keep in mind that Windows does not natively support those formats. You may wish to consider FAT 32 for something universal. I have never had problems with NTFS myself.
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Linux support of ntfs is decent. It seems you are using the wrong driver. Use ntfs-3g.
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+1 for ntfs-3g. With this, ntfs support is more than decent. I would deem it excellent.
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I use my external drive on stuff like game consoles, if you have anything comparable you ever want to use it for stick with FAT32.
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ntfs if windows/mac needs access to it, ext4 if not. fat32 has the moronic 4gb file size limit and no journal.
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NTFS is the way to go. Just install ntfs-3g (it's in the normal repos). Should solve all your problems. It's 100% stable. I've used it for years with no problems!
Oh, and don't worry about what they say on the internet... They are normally wrong :-)
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You shouldn't read random stuff on the internet without taking note of the context, primarily in this case the date. I'm pretty sure you're reading articles from the turn of the century.
NTFS is just fine (well, except for it being a Microsoft creation with everything that entails) and is better than Linux filesystems for external harddiscs (particularly due to the permissions issue if your user is not user 1000).
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It's 100% stable.
Hehe. How optimistic.
I can indeed confirm that the ntfs-3g works very well for me. It just seems to read a bit slower than the native windows implementation.
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SeanM wrote:It's 100% stable.
Hehe. How optimistic.
I can indeed confirm that the ntfs-3g works very well for me. It just seems to read a bit slower than the native windows implementation.
Didn't you know? Linux doesn't HAVE problems. Everything is the user's fault .
And yes, ntfs-3g has been very stable for me. Unfortunately the NTFS file-system itself is lacking in terms of usability for internal hard disks on a linux system, so everything inside the machine is ext4, and I hardly use ntfs anymore (ssh, unison, and dropbox mean I hardly need my thumbdrives or external hard disk drives).
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Can you format an external drive NTFS from linux? I haven't been able to find any how-to on that.
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Install ntfsprogs first then you can use gparted to format. I don't know the command to format from CLI XD
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Two years using NTFS format in a 500gb external hard drive. No problems so far.
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