New hard drive, what fs to format?

Question

linux

I bought a new hard drive, the drive will be used under Linux (ubuntu), what file system should I format it into? It will be used as a file cleaner.
I tried in ext2,3,4 but after formatting I can't write anything to the disk, it's just not possible. If you format it in ntfs, everything is ok, but this is probably not correct. I format with gparted.

Answer 1

Once an ext4 file system is created, only root can write to it. If you need to write from under the user, you need to mount it and give it permissions with chmod.
When creating ext4, 5% of the size is reserved by default. After creating a partition in gparted, I always create a file system without these 5 percent (key -m0):
mkfs.ext4 -m0 /dev/sd??

Answer 2

Are you sure you are creating a filesystem in gparted and not just creating a partition?