Re: do I need to format this new external drive

On 01/14/2008 06:19 PM, Liam Proven wrote:


Depends. Do you want to preserve things like permissions when copying
onto the drive?

If it's >2GB, it won't be FAT16, it will be FAT32, which is actually a
reasonably efficient, fast FS with good long name support. You can
back up onto it using DAR, say. Leaving it FAT32 will mean that it's
also accessible from Windows, a Mac or almost anything else, which
might be an advantage.

Unless of course you want to save files larger than 4Gb (such as an
Ubuntu DVD). In that case you'll want to use NTFS instead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs


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