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   TJ to Adam   
   Re: OT: ext4 or NTFS for external drive?   
   16 Nov 12 00:15:56   
   
   From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 11/15/2012 07:22 PM, Adam wrote:   
   > TJ wrote:   
   >> Shoulda learned how to run it from the command line instead of doing it   
   >> through MCC. Probably would have had some feedback that way.   
   >   
   > I'd say cancel MCC and start again with 'mke2fs' for each partition from   
   > the command line.  My usual is "mke2fs -ccjv -t ext4 /dev/sd??" but read   
   > the man page first.  You may want to use -m as mentioned in this thread.   
   >   Note -c is used twice for a read/write test.  With -v, it will keep   
   > you informed of its progress.  Over 30 hours sounds quite within reason   
   > for a ~1 TB partition.   
   >   
   > Adam   
      
   Around 36 hours now, and still going. Have decided to let it go until   
   tomorrow morning, and if it isn't done then I may just attempt to format   
   it from the command line, without checking for bad blocks again.   
      
   TJ   
      
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