Am 01.09.2016 um 11:01 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote:
>> 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>:
>>> On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>> 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.
>
> Do it. Tell me how long it tool.
>
> Discussing it without doing it and offering someone else's opinion is a
> 100% worthless activity
>
>> Even more: my aquiantance from the Window world
>> that recomended me this disc scared me that it may
>> take days...
> Mickey Mouse told me it takes microseconds. So what?
>
> Do it. Tell me how long it took.
>
>>>> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive
>>>> into smaller logical ones and why?
>>> The only reason to partition a drive is to get 2 or more
>>> smaller ones that differ somehow (size, inode ratio, mount options, etc)
>>>
>>> Go with no partition table by all means, but if you one day find you
>>> need one, you will have to copy all your data off, repartition, and copy
>>> your data back. If you are certain that will not happen (eg you will
>>> rather buy a second drive) then by all means dispense with partitions.
>>>
>>> They are after all nothing more than a Microsoft invention from the 80s
>>> so people could install UCSD Pascal next to MS-DOS
>> I definitely will not need more than one mount point for this hard drive
>> but I do remember some arguments that partitioning a large hard drive
>> into smaller logical ones gives me more safety in case a file system
>> suddenly will get corrupted because in this case I will loose my data
>> only on one of the logical partitions and not on the whole drive.
>>
>> Is this argument still valid nowadays?
> That is the most stupid dumbass argument I've heard in weeks.
> It doesn't even deserve a response.
>
> Who the fuck is promoting this shit?
>
>
people who had to deal with corrupted filesystems in the past?
