Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Marc Shapiro wrote, on 09/28/11 03:27: snip Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over ext3? Marc See, e.g., http://kernelnewbies.org/Ext4 and https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ext4 . For me it was especially its support for the discard/TRIM command for

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And the

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Other than fsck running faster, what are the

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 22:07, David Christensen wrote: On 09/25/2011 07:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Other than fsck running faster, what are the advantages of ext4 over ext3? Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/26/11 00:43, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Yes, but not if you are still on Lenny I have a Lenny box that was quite

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And the filesystem is ext4 for all of them. Are you recommending a

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system like ext4 for this size of drive. E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. Yes, but not if you are still on Lenny I have a Lenny box that was quite happy to create an ext4 file system, but it

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:07, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: I'd recommend LVM: +1, did that for a 1TB (931GiB) Seagte, you'll end up with a /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName1 /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName2 If you RTFM around it's fairily straightforward.

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:19:45 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Marc, Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nicolas
El 25/09/11 23:19, Marc Shapiro escribió: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive

Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive primarily for extra storage. Since I don't

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On 9/25/2011 10:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread David Christensen
On 09/25/2011 07:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to keep it as the boot drive and use the new drive