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Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:03:17 +0100 |
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schrieb Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>: |
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> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, 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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> Even if that were the case, does it really matter? You said you |
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> wanted to use this drive for backups, surely doing it right is more |
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> important than doing it quickly. It's not like you have to hold its |
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> hand while mkfs is running. |
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If you want to use it as a backup, and it's external (which it should |
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be), by all means: partition it. It acts as a protection layer against |
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silly OSes that may simply wipe data at the beginning (maybe by |
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accident) because there is no partition and they cannot detect that |
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there is data stored on the disk, and this destroy your fs superblock - |
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which is what you don't want. |
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History shows, that in case of disaster, you may attach your disk to |
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some recovery environment, just to find: your backup has been destroyed |
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now by accident. |
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Or someone else attaches this drive (out of curiosity or whatever) to |
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some silly OS, it asks "do you want to initialize this drive?" - "ah, |
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yes, of course sir". Bam. Gone. Not good. With a partition table this |
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does not happen. |
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PS: Yes, I mean Windows. |
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Regards, |
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Kai |
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