<div dir="ltr">That doesn't sound good.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM, jezra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jezra@jezra.net" target="_blank">jezra@jezra.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My concern mostly has to do with disk longevity. Currently I'm copying<br>
my data from a 2TB drive with some bad sectors to the 1TB drive, and<br>
the 2TB drive keeps beeping. grrrrrrr<br>
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On Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:32 -0700<br>
Jordan Erickson <<a href="mailto:jerickson@logicalnetworking.net">jerickson@logicalnetworking.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'm not the most experienced with this but I would have to think that<br>
> ext4, ReiserFS or XFS would probably all be just fine. Don't forget to<br>
> tune the filesystem options (/etc/fstab, etc.) too for your specific<br>
> use case (noatime/relatime come to mind for ext* filesystems, not<br>
> sure about others). Actual hardware specs will probably impact your<br>
> media consuming ability much more than the filesystem used on storage<br>
> medium. Also, think about the future - set it up with LVM if you can<br>
> as that would allow for easy adding of storage devices to the current<br>
> volume without much headache if/when you run out of room.<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Jordan<br>
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> On 05/18/2013 12:39 PM, jezra wrote:<br>
> > Hi Everyone,<br>
> > I've got a 1TB SATA drive that I'm about to format and before I use<br>
> > ext4, I thought I would ask around for file system recommendations.<br>
> > The drive will be part of my media machine and will store my DVD<br>
> > collection. The files in the drive will mostly be around 1GB in size<br>
> > and the drive will have far more reads than writes.<br>
> ><br>
> > Jezra<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Zack Gold<div>NBLUG Scribe</div>
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