[Trisquel-users] Format for New external hard drive

2016-04-15 Thread alejandroamatmartinez
I guess it won't work out of the box in Trisquel, so I was wondering what to do after purchasing it. Should I format the hard drive in FAT, NTFS or EXT4? I think formatting in EXT4 is a bad idea because of compabilities problems, eapecially if plugging the unit to Windows systems. What do

Re: [Trisquel-users] Format for New external hard drive

2016-04-15 Thread dguthrie
It depends what it's used for. If it is just for backups of Trisquel, such as full disk images, you could just go for ext4. If it's for carrying around files e.g. documents and presentations then go for FAT or NTFS. FAT has 4GoB limit though, so keep that in mind. Also NTFS has dubious