On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Ashish Sheth wrote: > Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:00:39 -0000 > From: Ashish Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [twincling] external disk > > hello friends, > > i bought a external disk to keep my data and it is size is 400gb. > please tell me good way to partition the disk for use with linux. > > cheers > Ashish >
Interesting. i recently bought a 500 GB IDE disk, casing and USB-IDE converter. Then i assembled it to make an external USB disk. Here are some test results formatting a single partition. 1. format with NTFS : 12 hrs 34 minutes 2. format with mkfs.ext3 -j option : 11 minutes My suggestion, go with ext3fs with journal (-j) option. Hope this helps. thanks Saifi.
