External NTFS drives will work with no problem with Ubuntu. Just plug in and use it.
No. Playstation3 supports only Fat32.
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Any external hard drive that presents itself as a standard USB Mass Storage device should work in Windows ME. This is about 95% of the drives on the market. Note that large hard drives may perform very slowly with the FAT32 file system, and Windows ME does not support NTFS.
Since Ubuntu is installed as an ext4 file system (not NTFS as in Windows), there is no need to defragment anything.
Yes, you can. If the external hard drive is formatted using the FAT32 or NTFS file system then you can read it in any windows computer. If you have it formatted as one of the Linux file systems (EXT2, EXT3, JFS, etc.) then just pop in an Ubuntu Live CD into the computer that you want to retrieve the data with and copy it off.
Mac OS X can read NTFS formatted drives but cannot write to them as it is a propriety format owned by Microsoft. Third party software will allow the Mac full read and write access to NTFS drives. Paragon's NTFS-Mac is not free software. It contains a driver that allows the Mac to read and write NTFS drives.
If your wondering which file system is beter, use NTFS, a FAT/FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 files system is usually used for removable drives, like Floppy Disks, Flash Drives, Jump Drives, or CD's, NTFS is typically used for hard drives as it has a much larger file size limit.
Ubuntu supports a large number of file systems, including ext2 (read/write), ext3 (read/write), ext4 (read/write), ReiserFS (read/write), JFS (read/write), XFS (read/write), FAT (read/write), and NTFS (read, additional software available for writing). With the exception of NTFS, it can also boot off of the above file systems.
NTFS has a slight performance and space penalty compared to FAT32 on smaller drives. Also, for portable drives, the features of NTFS like file ownership and permissions aren't especially useful. Other operating systems also could have difficulties .
NTFS (New Technology File System) is not natively compatible with DOS, as DOS primarily uses FAT (File Allocation Table) file systems, such as FAT16 or FAT32. While some third-party tools may allow read access to NTFS drives from DOS, full compatibility and support for NTFS features are lacking. Consequently, users typically need to rely on modern operating systems for NTFS functionality.
Not natively, although there are programs that will allow you to read an NTFS partition.
NTFS (New Technology File System) FAT (File Allocation Table)