On 11 December 2013 22:07, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > It is formatted NTFS-3G in a single partition
As in, the whole disk is a volume with no partition table, or has a partition table with a single volume? ( Though I had thought the former had died out with the floppy disk, I still see it from time to time with things like SD carts and USB keys ) Either way, it might be convenient to have a NTFS partition somewhere on the drive so that when you plug it in to a windows machine one day there's no chance of windows going "oh, you appear to have a weird hard drive, maybe its corrupt or not formatted, format it?" You may even want to keep the drive in NTFS if its removable, mostly because EXT* is not very useful if you want to read it on windows, there's software that supports it, but its still muchly a bag of wonky parts. Though, maybe one option is having a small NTFS volume with the EXT3 tools for windows on them if you're sure you want EXT volumes. http://www.ext2fsd.com/ # What I'd recommend , even has write support! -- Kent _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
