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On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: |
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> 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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>> On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: |
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>> it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. |
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>> And a few more to mkfs it. |
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> Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt |
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> that it will take seconds to create a full-fledged |
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> ext4 file system on these 5TB via USB2 connention. |
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Do it. Tell me how long it tool. |
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Discussing it without doing it and offering someone else's opinion is a |
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100% worthless activity |
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> Even more: my aquiantance from the Window world |
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> that recomended me this disc scared me that it may |
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> take days... |
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Mickey Mouse told me it takes microseconds. So what? |
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Do it. Tell me how long it took. |
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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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>> The only reason to partition a drive is to get 2 or more |
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>> smaller ones that differ somehow (size, inode ratio, mount options, etc) |
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>> Go with no partition table by all means, but if you one day find you |
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>> need one, you will have to copy all your data off, repartition, and copy |
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>> your data back. If you are certain that will not happen (eg you will |
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>> rather buy a second drive) then by all means dispense with partitions. |
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>> They are after all nothing more than a Microsoft invention from the 80s |
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>> so people could install UCSD Pascal next to MS-DOS |
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> I definitely will not need more than one mount point for this hard drive |
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> but I do remember some arguments that partitioning a large hard drive |
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> into smaller logical ones gives me more safety in case a file system |
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> suddenly will get corrupted because in this case I will loose my data |
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> only on one of the logical partitions and not on the whole drive. |
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> Is this argument still valid nowadays? |
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That is the most stupid dumbass argument I've heard in weeks. |
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It doesn't even deserve a response. |
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Who the fuck is promoting this shit? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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