* Georg Pfuetzenreuter via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> [06-27-23 12:02]:
Hi,
I personally would just zero out the disk before giving it away - the recipient can then format it with whatever filesystem they'd like. I think Windows users even get a prompt if they plug in a blank disk.
Cheers Georg
On 6/27/23 17:31, Daniel Bauer wrote:
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?
Thanks
Daniel
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