[Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD

[John Mc]

>gparted will do this, it should work under KDE without any problem.
Just make sure you are formatting the right drive. You need to make sure you're looking at that USB drive so as not to format a fixed disk. The other way to be absolutely sure would be to unplug your fixed disks and boot your system with gparted live CD. That way, the only drive available to the partitioner would be the USB one.  ...Glen

That is a way of accomplishing the desired result but it can also be done from the normal command line. Here is the code (for Mint):

     sudo mkntfs /dev/sdc1     (after downloading the ntfs package from the system section of the menu)

So, I already know how to safely format to ntfs. I just want to know if anyone out there has done this, and what were the results. That is, were you happy with the results? Is everyone just continuing to use the standard FAT 32 format for these USB, HDDs? Specifically, if you have formatted to ntfs, were you able to keep the auto-run software so that the USB, HDD continues to auto mount?

John