[mdlug] Portable hard drives.

[Robert Citek]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
> I am setting up a new portable hard drive.  1 terebyte
>
> I want to use a Linux partition instead of the usual Fat-32.  Etx3 for
> argument's sake What settings are required to give the drive the open
> parameters required to move from computer to computer?

What "open parameters" are you referring to?  You should be able to
just partition and format it (e.g. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1).

However, I'd recommend having at least a small fat32 partition on
there, just in case.

Regards,
- Robert