Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-30 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Chris Bannister writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:24:33PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What I do for every new disk before I use it is an exhaustive read/write >> check with badblocks. It reads and writes every block multiple times >> with various bitpatterns and random bitpatterns, and ch

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:24:33PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > What I do for every new disk before I use it is an exhaustive read/write > check with badblocks. It reads and writes every block multiple times > with various bitpatterns and random bitpatterns, and check that they can > be read c

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:55:46 -0600, paul condon wrote: > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different > stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. > I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on > this list can give a

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread Dom
On 24/06/13 16:55, paul condon wrote: I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwise. I hav

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:55:46AM -0600, paul condon wrote: > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from > different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here > in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, > excepting if someone on this list can g

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, paul condon wrote: > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from > different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here > in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, > excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwi

Re: trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
paul condon: > > I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from > different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here > in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, > excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwise. Ext4 is fine if you d

trouble formatting 3TB Seagate external HDrives. need help

2013-06-24 Thread paul condon
I have two 3TB Seagate external HDs. They were purchased from different stores at slightly different times earlier this year, here in Colorado. I want them to have ext4 file systems on them, excepting if someone on this list can give a reason otherwise. I have googled and gotten a lot of hits,