You can format an external hard drive in Ubuntu using the Gnome Partition Editor. It provides a graphical interface to simplify formatting and resizing hard drive ...

Although external hard drives are usually formatted by the manufacturer, the installed file system might not be compatible with your device. You must format the hard drive, and the tool to use will ...

I have an external hdd (1TB) that has 4 partitions, all are formatted to hfs+. I want to format one of them to an NTFS so that I can have a windows read/write drive. I am using g-parted in Ubuntu as ...