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On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:16, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd! > A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert > filesystem in one step. Well, you can speed it up considerably with a live CD. Then it's just a weekend away (get up, start copying, go do something, stop by home in the early-mid afternoon, fdisk/mkfs, start copying, take off for the afternoon. Get home, make things bootable, and you're done. > Sure, i've already done a backup copy, and already fdisk & mkfs.ext3 the > hd! Thanks anyway! Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! I just beat my head against the wall and lost much sleep over this trying to get faubackup to work backing things up to my new 0.4TB external Seagate hard drive. mkfs.ext2 was unbelievably slow, trying to back up would eventually panic the kernel, mentioning something about ext2 or ext3 but scrolling by too fast to see (and I can't scroll back after kernel panic on a USB keyboard). mkfs.ext3 would bomb creating the journal (but tune2fs -j worked fine). It was unbearable. I bought a firewire card and tried that. Even tried passing the sync option (which has somtimes helped me with removable media in the past). No dice, same problem. What finally fixed it, as of tonight, was using reiserfs instead. And with a $26 firewire card, it really screams. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because it's time to move forward http://ursine.ca/Ursine:Jabber
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