[conspire] should I format Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T in ext3 or leave as is?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tony Godshall (tony at of.net):

> I prefer the solution that makes the drive itself work "normally"
> rather than the one that makes the OS work around its quirks.
> That way if I move the drive to another machine later it will
> Just Work and I won't have to go back and look up the solution
> yet again.

Seconded.