From opensuse Tue Jun 27 19:07:25 2023 From: Daniel Bauer Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:07:25 +0000 To: opensuse Subject: Re: how/what formatting disks for sale Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=168789281925521 Thanks for the helpful input everybody! So, I'll format them with NTFS. This is also what WD external disks come with and probably what a common user expects. Enjoy your summer evening if you're in the northern hemisphere! Am 27.06.23 um 17:31 schrieb Daniel Bauer: > Hi, > > There are some external 1 and 2TB disks laying around here who got too > small for me and I want sell them cheap. Each has an encrypted partition > with reiserfs inside. > > So, I guess, first I'll have to remove the encrypted partition and make > a new one with fdisk. Then add a file-system with mkfs. > > Two questions: > > - should I use NTFS? > > - after installing the file system usually the device belongs to root > and I first have to change it to "me-user" before I can write on it as a > user. > > I don't know about rights on Win or Mac. Is there anything I should/must > do so that a Win or Mac-User can use the disks just switching them in? -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com