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   TJ to Adam   
   Re: OT: ext4 or NTFS for external drive?   
   16 Nov 12 18:51:06   
   
   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   
      
   Hmmmm. Trying the r/w test, just to see what's what. 39 minutes in, it   
   says it's 0.25% done. At that rate, it'll be finished in something like   
   11 days.   
      
   Sorry, Adam. I'm not willing to wait that long.   
      
   TJ   
      
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