Re: Formatting external HDD

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 18 October 2011 18:02:39 Walter Hurry wrote:
> I have an external 1T USB drive, which I use to storage of AV files, plus
> daily (rsync) backups. It is formatted as a single partition. I use ext2
> to avoid the overhead of journalling, but do carry out an e2fsck from
> time to time.
>
> It may not be an ideal arrangement, but it works well enough for me.

Thanks, Walter.  Yes, I omitted to say with what I was proposing to format 
such partition.  I was thinking about ext 3 and ext 2, with a small leaning 
towards ext 2, which is now a larger leaning!

Lisi