[SOLVED] ntfs vs ext4

I have a 1TB external usb Passport Hard drive. I set up an rsync job to back up my home directory. Looking at permissions everything was owned by root chmod 777. I changed owner to glenn:glenn. That worked. Then I tried to chmod -R 644. No errors but permissions were still 777. Fired up gparted to take a look at it, and it was formatted ntfs. No wonder nothing was working. Recreated the partition as ext4 and now everything works. Permissions are being maintained in my rsync job and life is good.

Stupid newbie trick. It was driving me nuts.

Just wanted to share ;)

--glenn