On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:18:11AM -0500, J C Nash wrote:
> I swapped disks yesterday and then formatted new one ext4. Then copied
> files from home repo of files. About 2 TB, but it went faster than
> when ntfs / fuseblk.
Can you estimate how much faster?
Thanks.
Regards,
Alex Pilon
To
I think we've figured out the isssues with rsync and the various options,
and a good option seems to have been implemented and working for JN.
But if you must know, I mostly use fdisk. I started using gparted a while
ago when aligning disks to 4k boundaries was a pain with fdisk. I still
use
On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:33:29AM -0500, t...@greenbullfrog.com wrote:
> As hinted-at in the post from Raj, the modern-day partition utility is
> parted (cli). The GUI equivalent is gparted. You can query your drive with:
Pardon me, but how is parted more “modern”? Can you explain? I'm not
sure
Yep. I use gparted quite a bit, though for some (not all) tasks lately I've
found gnome-disk-utility
slightly more user-friendly. And for USB sticks I generally use mint-stick
tools simply because they
are quick and relatively good at telling you what disks are what i.e., don't
have to remember
