[Tfug] FYI: Segate 500 GB USB hard drive

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Wed, December 16, 2009 11:46 am, erich wrote:
> Let's see:
>              I bought one from SWS, and you guessed it: I comes
> pre-formatted for
> MS fat 32  (fdisk code b). There's nothing to prevent you from re-
> formatting
> it for Linux ext3, (code 83). Keep in mind that some of these default
> formats
> won't allow the desired 32 characters in a filename that we're all used
> to.
>
>
> Erich
This is formatted NTFS and reads and writes fine.

Earl