mkfs.ext3 on 500GB drive

[Patrick Barnes]

Justin Conover wrote:

>On 6/26/05, Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote:
>
>
>>On Sunday 26 June 2005 00:00, Justin Conover wrote:
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>>>Well, I think your right, I plugged it into my wifes windows box and
>>>ntfs failed to format it too, guess I'll be calling LaCie. I thought
>>>these were supposed to be good drives.....
>>>
>>>
>>>From what I know of them, they usually work pretty well - don't blame the
>>manufacturer too much for a bad harddisk... most likely it got damaged while
>>shipping or so - well after LaCie did their functionality testing.
>>
>>Peter.
>>
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>Well, I registered it today and looks like you can only call from M-F,
>so I'll be calling tomorrow.
>
>Once I get a new one or how ever they do this, how do you recommend
>formating a 500GB drive.  Do you just use standard mkfs.ext3 or do you
>increase the inode size or anything else.  Any recommendations?  I'm
>going to see if they will send me the usb 2.0 instead of just
>firewire, so I will see how that goes.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
Using mkfs.ext3 without any special arguments should work just fine.
The only thing you might consider is changing the options for the
superblocks to improve efficiency.  Just have a look at the man page for
mkfs and see what interests you.  Many options can be changed later with
tune2fs.

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Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
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