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Hi! Running suse 10.2. It's a new 300 GB drive. Just want to know what to use and what's the best format as an extension of suse. I don't want ...
  1. 04-08-2007 #1
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    How to Format new external drive

    Hi! Running suse 10.2. It's a new 300 GB drive. Just want to know what to use and what's the best format as an extension of suse. I don't want to partition it. Want to use as a whole volume.
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    all FileSystems has a few pros and cons. i usually go with default FileSystem of distro. SuSe 10.2 is using ext3 as default and i suggest you to format disk in ext3 only.
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    I generally use ext3. It's been heavily tested, it's fast enough, and it has never given me any issues.
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    ext3 or ntfs

    If you want a Linux specific format, then the ext3 suggestions are likely very good.

    Ever since the ntfs-3g driver came out for read/write on NTFS, and I was successful in using it, I have always left my new external drives formatted as NTFS. That way my external drives are still compatible with friends/office PCs.
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    All you guys give me very goog advice. Thanks a lot. The question now is where do I go and how do I do it? All I know is administration of disks in Windows. I've a partitioning tool in Yast, but I don't want to partition. What do I use?
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    you have to create atleast one partition and format it in whatever FileSystem you like. you can't use 'raw' harddisk as it is. create one big partition occupying whole disk space.
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    Oldcpu:

    In the very near future you'll be able to have ext3 formatted externals and share with friends, Office, etc.
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    Thanks a lot guys! I appreciate it.
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    Thanks Casper. How dumb of me.
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