tyler_durden;325081 Wrote: > Linux, while very reliable, has other issues. It doesn't natively > support NTFS HDDs. This isn't really an issue until you try to use an > off-the-shelf external disk to backup your music on the linux machine. > You could format the external disk to a native linux format but then > you'd lose the ability to pass it around among friends. Assuming you > leave it NTFS, you will have to learn how to get NTFS to work and maybe > (if you're unlucky) how to get a USB HDD to automount when you connect > it to the linux machine.This is no longer correct, most current distributions > support r/w access to NTFS out of the box and it has been this way for some time now.
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