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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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