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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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