On 01/09/2016 10:59, gevisz wrote: > 2016-09-01 11:03 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: >> On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>>> it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. >>>> And a few more to mkfs it. >>> >>> Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt >>> that it will take seconds to create a full-fledged >>> ext4 file system on these 5TB via USB2 connention. >> >> Even if that were the case, does it really matter? > > You are right: it does not matter for the main question. > However, it is an additional reason to think twice and > ask a knowledgeable people before starting. :) > >> You said you wanted to use this drive for backups, >> surely doing it right is more important than doing >> it quickly. It's not like you have to hold its hand >> while mkfs is running. > > But I would have to keep my fingers crossed so that > there would not be a sudden blackout during the formatting > hard disk anyway. :)
Even if it does, so what? Unplug, start over. It's a mkfs, it lays down where the inodes are. You can do it over and over and over and over .... safely -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
