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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:09:03
Message-Id: put7et$2sj$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question by Dale
1 On 13/12/2018 09:49, Dale wrote:
2 > This is what it says right now.
3 >
4 > /dev/sdb1   2048 15628052479 15628050432  7.3T Linux filesystem
5
6 Just wanted to make sure it's not a 4K alignment issue. It starts at
7 2048 so it's fine.
8
9
10 > It is still trying to put a ext4 file system on it and it
11 > has been about a hour.
12
13 I'd recommend just using mkfs instead of using your own parameters:
14
15 mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
16
17 It will use the parameters from /etc/mke2fs.conf. This is the safest way
18 to format a partition.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>