I have a seagate 3tb drive and i have no problems with it. I formatted the whole drive as ext4 which i use for my backintime backups. I haven't cut it up into partitions and i only use it when i want to back up so it has stays under the couch in its box.
I think they have some kind propriety software running as an interface but it still works with Linux i.e. some details of the drive aren't available. I have checked the forums and other Linux users use them with no problems. I would suggest just to check the forums yourself just in case. Regards Bevan In a world without fences and walls, who needs Gates and Windows? Remember April 2014 Windows Xp will be no longer supported, so now is the time to change to Linux because its an easier learning curve than learning windows 8 the new windows vista. Check out http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/ or if you have an old computer which has limited resources you can use http://www.lubuntu.net/ http://crunchbang.org/ or http://puppylinux.org On 11 December 2013 22:07, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > I just purchased a 1TB drive which uses usb3 & usb2. It is formatted > NTFS-3G in a single partition. I would like to divide it and reformat it > with ext3 or ext4. There are some Registration files etc from Seagate on it > & 2 printed pages of instructions in sign language. > > Before I do so have you wise men any gotcha's I should be aware of. > > TIA > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >
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