[Cialug] External Hard Drive

[Lars Althof]

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.

Matthew Lechleider wrote:
> 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:
>   
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Todd
>> _______________________________________________
>> Cialug mailing list
>> Cialug at cialug.org
>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>>   
>>     
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>   

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20090510/42c37dd2/attachment-0001.htm 
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3388 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Url : http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20090510/42c37dd2/attachment-0001.bin