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On Monday 05 Sep 2016 10:42:34 Hans wrote: |
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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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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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Did you get the logical and physical sector aligned when you partitioned them? |
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(if not sure, google for 4k sector drives). All recent versions of |
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fdisk/gdisk/parted and friends will align them by default. |
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How did you test it with dd and how are you copying files? |
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How slow is slow in this case? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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