Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. Ext4 would be a better option? I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable therefore better for a server. Moreover I am going to use ecryptfs on top of that,

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Doug
On 03/23/2011 02:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Danganc...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. Ext4 would be a better option? I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be more stable therefore better for a server.

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-23 Thread Dan
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Todd A. Jacobs codegnome.consulting+deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Dan ganc...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know that the inodes would take so much space. Ext4 would be a better option? I chose Ext3 because it is older and it should be

Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
Hi, I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default value in Squeeze. The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: Hi, I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default value in Squeeze. The

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: Hi, I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the whole drive. I used

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: D I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB D and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the D whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default D value in Squeeze. The

Re: Format ext3 hard drives

2011-03-22 Thread Dan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Karl Vogel vogelke+deb...@pobox.com wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: D I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of 160GB D and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition for the D whole drive. I used