An alternative approach, which I've done and recommend, is to reformat the drive as ext3. This would require backing up the data first (obviously), and would prevent it being read by Windows (without installing additional drivers), but it's nice to have proper permissions, journalling, lack of fragmentation issues etc. vfat is a badly outdated filesystem, and external drives only really use it as a "lowest common denominator" since every OS can read it.
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