For use just on Linux, ext4 is the proper filesystem type. Drives formatted with Microsoft filesystems are often problematic, especially when used as RAID drives. Windows will always try to 'fix' either NTFS or exFAT drives that have been mounted on Linux. Moving between the two OS's is not a great idea if it can be avoided. Whether external drives will be automounted when plugged in is a system setting, configurable by the user. I don't know what desktop environment you're using, so I don't know exactly where the settings for that are on your system. You can check whether the drives are mounted by using the mount command in a terminal, or with the GUI file manager on your system, whatever it is.
Statistics: Posted by sgosnell — 2026-01-19 21:24