External USB Drives

[Paolo Galtieri]

I have a Seagate 1.5Tb drive and it works just fine with Linux.  I use it to
back up my Windows 7 system (when I boot up in Windows 7) and my Linux when
I boot up in Linux (Fedora 12).

Paolo

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to buy a 1.5Tb (or so) external USB disc drive to use for backup
> from my main file server.  Most of the ones I see around seem to say that
> they want Wondiws something - is that necessary or meaningful?  Should I
> just be able to plug it in and use it?  Do I need to partition and format
> it, or will it just work?
>
> Jonathan
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