[wplug] Linux Compatible External Drives

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 09:44:44 EST 2008


You can't use NTFS?  What distro are you using?  There should be ntfs-3g
fuse drivers available.  Can OSX use NTFS?  The drives usually say Windows
and OSX.  I thought the only FS they had in common was FAT32.

On Feb 5, 2008 7:54 PM, F W Deible <fwdeible at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent, which is not usable out of the box.
> It (and every other one I could find) comes formatted NTFS; I used GParted
> to make it work with my system.
>
> If somebody finds one formatted FAT, that'd be great, or like someone else
> said buy a hdd and an enclosure.
>
> Good Luck :)
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2008 2:47 PM, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:41:52 -0500
> > "Mackenzie Morgan" <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Most drives are FAT32-formatted, aren't they?  FAT32 is compatible
> > with just
> > > about everything.
> > >
> > > On Feb 5, 2008 2:37 PM, beer at cmu.edu <beer at cmu.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey kids, hope everyone is well.
> > > >
> > > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any good external drives that
> > support
> > > > linux out of the box?
> > > >
> > > > I need something that is 500G, and preferably supports both usb and
> > > > firewire, but I can do without the firewire.  If it had a usuable
> > encryption
> > > > option that would also be swell.
> > > >
> > > > I've done some searches and I find drives that OS X and Solaris
> > compatible
> > > > out of the box but none yet that support linux.
> > > >
> > > > I know I can just reformat the drive and all, but given the
> > magnitude of
> > > > the work I need this for, I want to have to do as little as possible
> > to the
> > > > drives before I can use them.
> >
> > [Context lost due to top posting]
> >
> > Even better, how about a USB enclosure - they're usually
> > pretty generic, and some may even suppor firewire.
> >
> > --
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