filesystems on USB hard drives?

[Adam Funk]

On 2010-03-09, Steve Flynn wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> Are USB hard drives as flexible with regard to partitioning and
>> filesystems as internal drives?  (I mean, can you partition them any
>> way you want and use any GNU/Linux-compatible filesystems, including
>> luks?)  I expect the answer is yes, but I'm just curious before I buy
>> one.
>
> Yup - you shouldn't be able to tell the difference between a USB
> mounted drive and something internal with regards to partitioning.
> Device names will change but as far as you're concerned, no different.

That's what I expected, but thanks for the confirmation.