[Sussex] Label and partition external hard drive

[Desmond Armstrong]

  On 22/02/11 19:18, Steven Dobson wrote:
> NTFS is relatively new in Linux.  I'm not absolutely sure if NTFS writes
> are out of testing.  But as this is for backup play it safe.  Use the
> most common FS so you can read on something:  VFAT.

Where I require a common partition I have originally used FAT32 but 
certainly NTFS has worked fine for me for some years now.