Good Afternoon ALL,
I acquired a Seagate External Harddrive for back up purposes - it’s Microsoft based and IS compatible with Linux BUT DOES NOT AUTO-UPDATE like it would if my laptop was microsoft based. ANYONE ever acquired one and know of a work around so I can update from my Linux Laptop to don’t want to say the works Hard drive 
It’s NOT a huge deal - just having to go folder by folder to update in lieu of auto update was what I was looking for 
God Bless - Pat
It should work,nothing fancy it’s just External storage , overwrite it with readable filesystem and you’re ready to use
some users on reddit and linux mint forums reported seagate hard drive works fine under linux
I don’t own one I’m not really sure.
Windows is common, and usually external hard drives will come preformatted with Windows’ NTFS.
Typically, a Linux user will delete the existing partition(s), repartition the hard drive, and format it–usually with EXT4.
What is the model number of the Seagate external hard drive?
What is the error message you are receiving to indicate the hard drive is not compatible?
Sorry I adjusted my initial comment - It does work with Linux just doesn’t auto update like if my system was microsoft based
Seagate Toolkit, the software that they use for automatic backups and mirroring on mac and windows, is not supported on linux. All file operations should still work, but extra features like that will not. You can see a bit more information on the One Touch (as one of their models with this exact issue) i’ve noted on the wiki page relating to this topic.
If you want, I can update that page with some more info - once you get trust level 1, you’ll be able to edit and add stuff to the page
Thank Dominic - likeI told the other young lady - the Seagate works perfectly storing my information - but if my system was Microsoft it would happen auto and not manual apparently - It’s just a few extra minutes from saving or updating.
Nothing serious - just thought if someone had a work around cool - if NOT no sweat/
Yeah, the automatic backup requires Seagate Toolkit. However, you could try deja dup or timeshift.
I own a Seagate expansion disk on 10tb size. When i bought it I remember it having some backup tools, and the first thing I did was entirely formatting the drive in NTFS.
Nowdays is connected in my Linux system with an fstab entry with the ntfs-3g driver and with the big_writes options. Any kind of problem. The disk is working flawless.
Thank you for that insight.
God bless Pat