On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came > formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and > results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GParted): > > File system NTFS > ---------------- > Total capacity - 1.82 TiB > Used by file system - 122.66 MiB (?) > > File system Ext4 > ---------------- > Total capacity - 1.82 TiB > Used by file system - 29.42 GiB (?) > > Thus NTFS reported using about 240 times less space then Ext4 file > system. The loss of the drive space is just huge. It's about 29 GB. > > Is it normal? Or GParted is a wrong tool to use, while formatting 2T hard > drive? I've never used such big HDD before, hence a confusion. > > Could somebody enlighten me on the subject, please?
Sorry, my candle has just gone out. But through the darkness I sense you are in need of fine tunning the percentage of blocks which are destined to super-user. $ man mkfs.ext4 Look for "-m" argument. I do not know if gparted has a feature to set this option when creating a new filesystem.
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