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Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It worked fine and it was there with 0 bytes. Weird. |
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>> I sort of gave up on this drive. I had a very kind soul to send me a video |
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>> card when I did this build. He also sent me a 250Gb drive. I copied all I |
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>> could to that but did lose a LOT of my videos and such. Anyway, I'm doing |
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>> this right now: |
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>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc |
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>> I figure that will put it back like brand new and very blank. I'll recreate |
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>> my partition, throw a file system on it and see if it will let me copy back |
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>> to it or not. |
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>> While I am at it, what is the best file system for videos? That is the |
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>> biggest thing I use that drive for. I had a LOT of NCIS, CSI and other |
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>> shows that are now gone. Anyway, what are opinions on a file system for |
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>> videos on a 750Gb drive? I had reiserfs on it before. |
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> I had a few terabytes of my own DVD rips on ext4 on a 3TB RAID5 once |
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> upon a time. Worked very well. |
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I'm not picky. Unless someone comes up with something better, I'll give |
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ext4 a try. I have read it is pretty swift plus it is some shiney new . |
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. . stuff. ;-) Shhh. There may be a lady on here too. Read between |
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the lines. |
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I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it |
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has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ |
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Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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