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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Firstly, pity it is a Seagate. If ever I have had a drive go down it is a Seagate, and I've heard the same on podcasts. That over....</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I never bother about what is already on a drive, I just format it first off. I just use ext4 because I don't ever want to use Windows. Having said that I do believe that Windows nowadays can do other file systems. Should you wish, a single command will install ZFS commands to your Ubuntu computer and you could put ZFS on the drive with all the advantages that it has. I confess I have not done this yet except in for a ZFS pool for LXC/LXD containers.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So, in summary, I wouldn't give it a second thought, just get Gparted launched a get on with the formatting. If you can get CCL to swap that drive for another, I'd do that. Nowadays It is definitely worth considering an SSD or a hybrid if you are wanting a very big drive and you find SSD to be too expensive.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Doubtless we will all be on-line tomorrow for a meeting so that would be a good place to ask questions too.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Brian<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 6 June 2021, 00:46:55 CEST, Moanin via Bradford <bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi Folks,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I purchased an external Seagate Basic drive for backup and storage <br></div><div dir="ltr">purposes. The enquiries I made prior to purchase, repeated on a few <br></div><div dir="ltr">sites, was that if it works on 'doze it will work on Linux. To date I <br></div><div dir="ltr">haven't found anything to contradict that.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I made the mistake of buying from CCL. Once upon a time you could ask at <br></div><div dir="ltr">the counter and they would respond with "We don't officially support <br></div><div dir="ltr">{your OS if it's not 'Doze} but off the record and as a Linux user <br></div><div dir="ltr">myself (or call across to a Linux user to help) I'd suggest . . ."<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Nowadays it's "if yer don't got 'Doze we'ze don't want ter 'noze". Brick <br></div><div dir="ltr">wall. Hence my last ever purchase from CCL has already taken place.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My laptop picks up nothing. My Pc says "Unable to access "Seagate Basic" <br></div><div dir="ltr">and puts the Unknown filesystem "nfts" on the next line.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It's fairly obvious I can format this drive but what is the recommended <br></div><div dir="ltr">file system to format it to? Do I need to leave the 1MB "boot" bit at <br></div><div dir="ltr">the beginning?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">The use purpose is to first of all back up the laptop so I can reinstall <br></div><div dir="ltr">the OS and add a little reconfiguration, than rinse and repeat with the <br></div><div dir="ltr">PC after installing a bigger hdd. Thereafter use it as a regular backup <br></div><div dir="ltr">drive including the rsync backups for the VPSs.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">TIA,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Mike<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">Bradford mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a></div></div>
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