Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:03:17 +0100 schrieb 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 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. If you want to use it as a backup, and it's external (which it should be), by all means: partition it. It acts as a protection layer against silly OSes that may simply wipe data at the beginning (maybe by accident) because there is no partition and they cannot detect that there is data stored on the disk, and this destroy your fs superblock - which is what you don't want. History shows, that in case of disaster, you may attach your disk to some recovery environment, just to find: your backup has been destroyed now by accident. Or someone else attaches this drive (out of curiosity or whatever) to some silly OS, it asks "do you want to initialize this drive?" - "ah, yes, of course sir". Bam. Gone. Not good. With a partition table this does not happen. PS: Yes, I mean Windows. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
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