Re: 2TB file system
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 ;-)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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