It is easy enough to check though, with the drive connected, just bring up your partition manager or "Drives" from your menus, click the drive to see information about it like which filesystem it has on it. I thought it was NTFS, but it could have been Fat32. I got my 2 Western Digital 1tb USB external Drives (Grey "Slim" and Blue "Ultra") a long time ago, and I honestly do not recall what the original filesystem was on them. It is also more secure with your Linux system. I do find that the Linux "ext4" file system to be faster and it is quick and easy to fix if needed. If you have multimedia files (music, videos and movies, pictures, etc.) that you may want to use (or share) with any of the aforementioned computers and devices at home or elsewhere, then you want an NTFS partition available for those.
most of which will not read the Linux "ext4" partition (this may be changing now because some of the newer devices will read the Linux ext4 file system). The NTFS partition is accessible by almost any other computer and their operating systems, and smart devices like smart TV and Blu-Ray / DVD players, tablets, Game consoles, hardware routers with USB ports, etc. I chose to make 2 partitions on my WD USB external drives: I left the existing NTFS partition, but I shrank it in half so I could also create a Linux "ext4" partition.
If you are only going to use the drive for backing up, then you can use whatever you want, leave the existing NTFS file system, or format it using the typical Linux "ext4" format. This depends upon what you want to use your USB external drive for. If you run " inxi -Fxzd" and " lsusb" from the console terminal prompt, highlight the results, copy and paste them back here, that should provide enough information. It would help to know more about your system setup. Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux Mint and its excellent forum!
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