Re: best practices for an external hard drive that many hosts might use?

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 On Friday 23 November 2007, Derek Martin wrote: 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:36:40PM -0500, Brendan Kidwell wrote: 
> > I have a couple of external hard drives with Firewire and USB 
> > connectors on each, and in the last year I've been ridding myself of 
> > Windows and OS X computers, to the point where it doesn't make any 
> > sense to use NTFS or FAT32 on these disks. 
> 
> Why not?  Linux can read and write those filesystems without any 
> troulbe these days.  And using those filesystems seems to solve your 
> permissions problem rather naturally... 

Not true. Latest Ubuntu couldn't read a Vista-formatted NTFS partition, while 
SuSE could. Have no idea why this is. Really stymied me. 

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