[Sussex] Label and partition external hard drive

[Stephen Williams]

I've used ntfs-3g with Gentoo for some time and it works very well. Gentoo
includes the necessary udev rules  for automounting ntfs partitions with
ntfs-3g as well, so it all works pretty much out of the box (as much as
anything Gentoo can be said to be "out of the box"). It has also been
completely reliable - more so than Windows 7 is.

Steve Williams. 

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[mailto:sussex-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steven Dobson
Sent: 22 February 2011 21:02
To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Label and partition external hard drive

Hi Desmond

On 22/02/11 20:27, Desmond Armstrong wrote:
>  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.

That's good to know.  I'll try and remember that I know someone how has used
it.

Steve
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