EXT4 external hard drive for use with multiple systems

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Published on 2013-10-29T21:59:06Z Indexed on 2013/10/29 22:00 UTC
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I recently bought a external hard drive to store some data on. I use Linux but I am not a power user. If I format the drive to EXT4, is it possible for the permissions to ever screw up and I lost access to my data? I will be plugging the drive into several different linux based computers at work and I frequently hop distros on my main home machine.

I need to make sure I don't lose any data because I overlooked something. I am not familiar with EXT 3 or 4.

So far I have done this :

  1. Formatted drive to EXT4
  2. ran gksudo thunar and changed the permissions to my user account and all settings to read/write
  3. Wrote all the files I need to the drive

I really appreciate any help.

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