[Novalug] Recommendation: USB Large harddrives 400G(and up) What is a good filesystem to use?

[maxpublic08 at maxwellspangler.com]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, DonJr wrote:

> I just got a USB connected hard drive, says "500G" on the box. (but)
> Plugged it in and Gnome(i guess) mounted it at "/media/My Data".

> What would be a good format to use for the filesystem on it?

I've got four external drives of various sizes from 120 to 300 connected to my 
laptop.  I'm using ext3 based on the maturity of the filesystem and the 
familiarity of the tools..

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