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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Likewise! I do love it when I run into people casually running Linux. I've met a few people who run Linux without really thinking about it; they just found Linux on the Internet, thought it sounded like a neat idea, and switched. I wish it happened more often!
You can access external USB drives through Linux on a Chromebook. Look in Settings on your Chromebook, and possibly re-read the section entitled "Share files and devices with Linux". If it's still not working for you, then you might need to format your drive with a different filesystem. Chromebooks do seem to have a fairly limited list of [reliably] supported filesystems.