[mythtvnz] Best Format for a 3TB?

[tortise]

On 12/11/2013 6:30 p.m., tortise wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 8:19 a.m., criggie wrote:
>> On 11/11/13 23:43, tortise wrote:
>>
>> TO FIX IT:
>> So you need to run gparted to delete and recreate the partition then
>> put a filesystem on it with mkfs.ext4.
>> This will lose all the data on the partition unless you copy it
>> elsewhere and back afterwards.
>
> gparted on mythbuntu 12.04 (0.11.0) has done the trick - when selecting
> the partition the 2nd trick is to select "advanced", then "gpt",
> thereafter its intuitive. (Mythbuntu 10.04 has one version too old of
> gparted it seems, maybe it can be updated, I just used the 12.04 box)

Formatted a new 3TB drive, cp all files across, to get:
@mythtv0:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
....
/dev/sde1            2884285068 2791119844         0 100% /media/3TB#2
/dev/sdf1            2884283608 2832514960         0 100% /media/3TB#2a

The new drive has the suffix "a".

Not sure it makes a lot of difference beyond removing an error message?!