[Gllug] Partition a 2 TB drive for storing films

[Caroline Ford]

You'll regret ext3 if you ever need to use the drive on a non-Linux  
machine. I regretted making my music drive ext3 when Ubuntu had  
problems with permissions it just didn't have on NTFS.

Caroline

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On 6 Mar 2010, at 18:01, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

> I've just bought a 2 TB Seagate USB drive (130 squids from Maplin) to
> store my film collection on, replacing an older 750G one.
>
> I was pleased to see that at last it didn't come formatted with one
> large FAT partition.  Instead it had one large NTFS partition, so that
> had to go.
>
> Is there any reason for me not to just make one large ext3 partition?
> Is there anything else more suited to a large filesystem?  Note that
> there will be a relatively small number of largish (2 to 4 gig)  
> files on it.
>
> TIA,
> John
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