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External Hard drive storage for linux mint 7

  • 26-11-2009 7:51pm
    #1
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I want to get a external hard drive >500GB but for all the models ive seen the only os support is for windows or mac os. Do i have to buy special drives for linux?


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  • #2
    dioltas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭dioltas


    I'd imagine it would be fine man. I have a 320 GB external hard drive that I have used with Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Windows and probably a few more. I borrowed a 500 gb one from a friend before with it's own power source. I think it worked fine with linux iirc, but it wasn't recognised by a PS3.

    Should be grand really, if there's some encryption or transfer software that comes on the drive, this may be only for Windows / Mac and maybe that's what they mean. My 320gb drive had some software like that on it that I just deleted. Don't even know what it was for tbh.

    Edit: Sorry, my one is actually 160gb. This one is the same model except it's 320 gb. It only specifies windows or mac too.


  • #3
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Drives are just external storage devices and fully support Linux. As the previous two posters said it will come with some software which will only be for Mac/Windows but you don't need it to use the drive. Usually the software is backup software and possibly some encryption - both of which you can do natively in Linux anyway.


  • #4
    mehmeh12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭mehmeh12


    Macros42 wrote: »
    Drives are just external storage devices and fully support Linux. As the previous two posters said it will come with some software which will only be for Mac/Windows but you don't need it to use the drive. Usually the software is backup software and possibly some encryption - both of which you can do natively in Linux anyway.

    Well im going being manually copying files from my linux to the external drive-but how do i encrypt files in linux?


  • #5
    dioltas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭dioltas


    mehmeh12 wrote: »
    Well im going being manually copying files from my linux to the external drive-but how do i encrypt files in linux?

    EncFs is a fairly nice simple way to do it. Truecrypt is more supposed to be more secure and can be accessed under windows. If you wanted you could partition your harddrive and have an entire truecrypt partition.


  • #6
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Or you can just create an encrypted volume - right click on a folder and Encrypt.


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