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 ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the default > D> value in Squeeze. The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is > D> taking for ever. > >>> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:19:12 -0800, Greg Madden <gomadtr...@gci.net> said: > > G> Not sure about the initial format but all subsequent fsck take lots of > G> time with ext3, esp 2 TB. > > If you're really set on ext3, specifying larger files and fewer inodes > will definitely shorten the partition build and fsck times. I have some > Seagate 1.5Tb drives, and I decided on two ~700Gb partitions instead of > a single giant one. You might have to fool around with fdisk to get the > sizes just the way you like. > > Using fewer inodes added a total of nearly 80 Gb of available space on > /space1 and /space2, compared to one huge partition with default inode setup. >
80Gb in a 1.5Tb hard drive is the 5% 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, and I do not know if ext4 works well with ecryptfs. Dan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTim=n8_fhwoqlwxkej+yg-tuywj9btcigptiy...@mail.gmail.com
