Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-11 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> You seem to have overlooked Darac Marjal's response. I have not. I've just took a pause to do some additional reading and to experiment a little. I've tried 'tune2fs -m 1.0 /dev/sdXY' (found in Arch docs for Ext4). The result was quite interesting. Both Nautilus and "df" showed the used spac

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 10 November 2014 19:32:39, Juan R. de Silva a écrit : > > $ man mkfs.ext4 > > > > Look for "-m" argument. > > "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved > space is specified/recommended in man pages. > > GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (qu

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> $ man mkfs.ext4 > > Look for "-m" argument. "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved space is specified/recommended in man pages. GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (quite generous against default 5%). For NTFS, on the other hand, only 0.0067% w

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Andre N Batista
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came > formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and > results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GP

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread ken
On 11/10/2014 08:18 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Hi folks, I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and results surprised me quite a

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 04:31:53AM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came > formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and > results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GP

WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-09 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I've purchased a new WD Passport 2T USB hard drive, which, no doubts,came formated NTFS. I've used GParted to quickly format the drive to Ext4 and results surprised me quite a bit (all results as reported by GParted): File system NTFS Total capacity - 1.82