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   TJ to All   
   OT: ext4 or NTFS for external drive?   
   13 Nov 12 13:36:31   
   
   From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   Just bought a 1TB external portable drive. Amazing how they can now get   
   so much stuff on a drive the size of a wallet. But anyway, I'm expecting   
   to use this drive for semi-archival purposes, and I don't really expect   
   to need to access it via Windows - but you never know. Not expecting to   
   want to take it anywhere for others to access it, and it's not likely   
   that anybody would be using it but me.   
      
   I'm leaning toward reformatting in ext4, but Linux is efficient enough   
   these days that NTFS is a viable option, too - just in case I'm wrong   
   and I DO need to use Windows to access the data someday.   
      
   Any thoughts from you guys?   
      
   TJ   
      
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