From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 06:31:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5583581.UaoFA4Q5tl@dell_xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nqif1q$ci0$1@blaine.gmane.org>
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On Monday 05 Sep 2016 10:42:34 Hans wrote:
> On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote:
> > I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive
> > that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files
> > in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for
> > example a virtual machine image file, from one computer
> > to another. This hard drive is preformatted with NTFS.
> > Now, I am going to format it with ext4 which probably
> > will take a lot of time taking into account that it is
> > going to be done via USB connection. So, before formatting
> > this hard drive I would like to know if it is still
> > advisable to partition big hard drives into smaller
> > logical ones.
> >
> > For about 20 last years, following an advice of my older
> > colleague, I always partitioned all my hard drives into
> > the smaller logical ones and do very well know all
> > disadvantages of doing so. :)
> >
> > But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big
> > hard drive into smaller logical ones?
> >
> > Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive
> > into smaller logical ones and why?
>
> I use 2TB USB drive with one EXT4 partition. Took about 30 seconds to
> format connected to a USB2 port. Testing the drive with dd and copying
> files to the drive is very slow. Don't touch "Green Drives". They die
> like flies.
Did you get the logical and physical sector aligned when you partitioned them?
(if not sure, google for 4k sector drives). All recent versions of
fdisk/gdisk/parted and friends will align them by default.
How did you test it with dd and how are you copying files?
How slow is slow in this case?
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 6:04 [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive? gevisz
2016-09-01 6:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 7:18 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 8:59 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:11 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 21:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 22:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 11:03 ` gevisz
2016-09-06 23:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-07 6:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-07 22:12 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-07 22:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-08 21:41 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2016-09-08 0:47 ` waltdnes
2016-09-09 15:25 ` Andrew Lowe
2016-09-10 15:27 ` Peter Humphrey
2016-09-01 12:23 ` Dale
2016-09-01 7:23 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-09-01 8:44 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-09-01 9:05 ` gevisz
2016-09-02 4:23 ` gevisz
2016-09-02 4:50 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 9:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-09-01 7:30 ` Matthias Hanft
2016-09-01 8:49 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 8:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 9:09 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 12:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 19:04 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 21:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 12:51 ` Michael Mol
2016-09-01 13:27 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 17:42 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 17:54 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-02 10:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-02 11:48 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-02 12:38 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-09-01 19:17 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 21:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 23:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2016-09-02 0:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 11:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 18:58 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 19:12 ` Rich Freeman
2016-09-01 19:56 ` gevisz
2016-09-01 20:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-09-01 20:57 ` Kai Krakow
2016-09-02 22:03 ` Mick
2016-09-02 22:42 ` Dale
2016-09-03 8:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2016-09-03 15:50 ` Dale
2016-09-03 9:58 ` Kai Krakow
2016-09-03 15:58 ` Dale
2016-09-03 15:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2016-09-03 16:50 ` Mick
2016-09-04 16:48 ` Stroller
2016-09-04 18:42 ` Mick
2016-09-05 0:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans
2016-09-05 5:31 ` Mick [this message]
2016-09-05 12:56 ` Hans
2016-09-05 18:42 ` Mick
2016-09-05 7:22 ` gevisz
2016-09-05 12:51 ` Hans
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