From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACB49138330 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1D1421C11C; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AD6E0AC9 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:03:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [81.108.251.46] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1bfMy2-0001AD-KD for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2016 08:03:22 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D7126536F7E for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:03:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:03:17 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive? Message-ID: <20160901090317.1a1bd0bd@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <7d89dbe6-6b4d-7812-7d88-edb87b0922e0@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/mweOT5DWoKAUopRFW65KBdp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [81.108.251.46] Feedback-ID: 81.108.251.46 X-Archives-Salt: e680d97c-a756-4d28-b59e-3f512f3ee07e X-Archives-Hash: 7a4fda190f0a2816f1291dfaf2e5faa4 --Sig_/mweOT5DWoKAUopRFW65KBdp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. > > And a few more to mkfs it. =20 >=20 > Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt > that it will take seconds to create a full-fledged > ext4 file system on these 5TB via USB2 connention. Even if that were the case, does it really matter? You said you wanted to use this drive for backups, surely doing it right is more important than doing it quickly. It's not like you have to hold its hand while mkfs is running. --=20 Neil Bothwick Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail. --Sig_/mweOT5DWoKAUopRFW65KBdp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAlfH4MUACgkQum4al0N1GQOHTgCfQWPEIw/qtf3cJ3RQmifti8p2 GOUAn03mMOdXU8MBkZbR7dn/LXvJJ4KH =q3/B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mweOT5DWoKAUopRFW65KBdp--