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On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: |
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> I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive |
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> that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files |
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> in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for |
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> example a virtual machine image file, from one computer |
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> to another. This hard drive is preformatted with NTFS. |
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> Now, I am going to format it with ext4 which probably |
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> will take a lot of time taking into account that it is |
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> going to be done via USB connection. So, before formatting |
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> this hard drive I would like to know if it is still |
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> advisable to partition big hard drives into smaller |
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> logical ones. |
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> For about 20 last years, following an advice of my older |
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> colleague, I always partitioned all my hard drives into |
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> the smaller logical ones and do very well know all |
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> disadvantages of doing so. :) |
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> But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big |
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> hard drive into smaller logical ones? |
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> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive |
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> into smaller logical ones and why? |
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I use 2TB USB drive with one EXT4 partition. Took about 30 seconds to |
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format connected to a USB2 port. Testing the drive with dd and copying |
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files to the drive is very slow. Don't touch "Green Drives". They die |
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like flies. |
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