On Tuesday 22 March 2011 02:42:36 pm Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the netinst to install Debian. I have one hard drive of > 160GB and 2 hard drives of 2TB. Each hard drive has a ext3 partition > for the whole drive. I used ext3 instead of ext4, because that is the > default value in Squeeze. > > The netinst is creating the ext3 partitions but it is taking for ever. > I think it has done the 160GB partition and now it is doing the 2TB > partition. The progress bar has shown 33% of the process for 2 hours. > Is this normal? Does it take so long to format a 2TB partition. I > would expect that the progress bar should move with the time. > > Thanks, > Daniel Not sure about the initial format but all subsequent fsck take lots of time with ext3, esp 2 TB. i would switch to ext4,you can do this during the netinstall, high light ( press enter) on the file system entry and a pop up screen appears with more file system choices.
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