Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a 1TB external seagate hard
drive that i use it with my dell inspiron 1525 laptop running
UBuntu 9.04. I dont intend to share my hdd with anyone, so my
laptop is the only comp i will plug it into. Its on NTFS right
now, it auto mounts as soon as i plug it in and i can transfer
data without worrying about permissions.  But, ntfs-3g takes up
a lot of cpu and resources, particularly for long running data
transfers of over 20G. So i want to shift to a native linux file
system for my hdd (probably ext4 or ext3 ?).  1) Will there be a
significant difference in data transfer rate( <= 26 MBps
currently) , cpu usage and system responsiveness with a native
file system as opposed to NTFS ?  2) Will auto mounting work or
do i have to manually mount it every time.  3) What do i have to
do to mask file system permissions or to make sure that the
permissions don't get in the way like in NTFS ?   I don't intend
to ever use the drive in windows.  share|improve this question
Do you intend to ev