[mythtvnz] Best Format for a 3TB?

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:02 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 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?!
>

What difference were you looking to find.

Drives with 4k sectors with misaligned partitions perform badly, but
they still hold the same amount of data.

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