Lion Time Machine back up to external.

Will TM in Lion wipe out all the files in my external if I use it as a back up disk? The external HDD has Windows NT Filesystem as the format and I use Paragon NTFS write into the disk. I notice that I can select my external as a TM backup now compare to Snow Leopard which requires the disk the be reformat.
Thanks.

You can select it, but if it says "reformat required" it will erase and reformat.  See #21 in  Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions.

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