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I got one of the small Seagate drives. It was Windows formatted (of
course), but it was no big deal to repartition and format with ext3.<br>
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Matthew Lechleider wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have been shopping around for a portable USB drive for my laptop.
I have been looking at the physically smaller drives such as the Western
Digital Passport.
From what I have heard the drives come with special software which can
be a pain to change the file system type.
Any Linux users out there have any experiences or recommendations?
Todd Walton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Is there anything I should watch out for in geting an external hard
drive that will work with Linux? I would think that hard drive and
USB connection would be pretty standard and Linux could use it, but
I'd like to make sure.
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Todd
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