On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:31:53 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I recently acquired a 2TB SATA HD that I have not yet installed. It will > be used entirely to store media files. Would there be any problems in > formating the entire disk (no partitions) as an EXT4 file system?
Well... there has to be at least "one" partition ;-) As you are not booting from it, no other problems, so far... > Any other considerations? Hum... Reconsider partitioning or even reconsider the file system. A single volume of 2 TiB is very big (and big file systems are more prone to errors and hard to recover in the event of a corruption... fsck can take... ages? :-P). Also, if you plan to host specifically multimedia files you could consider using XFS instead, I've been told is very good for such purpose ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.16.17.30...@gmail.com