Is it okay to format my Toshiba Canvio Ready Portable Hard Drive to “ext4”?

[thenanobel]

Today I have bought a new Toshiba 1TB Canvio Ready USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black). The specifications page of the portable hard drive says, it has been formated to NTFS file system and can be re-formatted to HFS+ file system for full Mac compatibility.

File system
NTFS (MS Windows)
* The drive can be re-formatted to HFS+ file system for full Mac compatibility.

However, I am a Debian GNU/Linux (Linux) user and I am wishing to re-format the portable external hard drive to ext4 file system. Is it okay to do so?

 

[Alabalcho]

By the time you wrote that, you could try it. The drive itself does not care what file system is on it.

 

[popatim]

Yes, you can but if you won't be able to read the drive on windows.
If you want cross-platform compatibility, try formatting in Ex-Fat. I know linux supports it but I'm not sure where Debian is.