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On 13/12/2018 09:11, Dale wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Howdy, |
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>>> I bought a 8TB hard drive. Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the |
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>>> exact model info. It seems to be slow. |
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>> What's the output of: |
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>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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>> (Assuming it's the sda drive.) |
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> Well, after a lot more googling, I decided to start over and then |
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> decided to use a different tool. I ran dd for several GBs and then used |
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> gparted to partition and format the drive with ext4. Right now, it is |
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> doing the format part. |
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I'd still like to know what the output of "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda" is :P |
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