On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:30:07 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > 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
I have an external 1TB USB drive formatted as ext2 (ext2 rather than ext4 as it USB, and I would prefer to avoid the overhead of writing to the journal) with a single partition, which I use mainly for backups and videos, plus some music and a few other large files (CD images and the like). It is 89% full at the moment. I like to do an e2fsck from time to time, which takes about ten minutes. No big deal as far as I am concerned. By the way, this is a standard laptop-nothing fancy. -- 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/j2guu2$5r2$1...@dough.gmane.org