Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/21 Sian Mountbatten <poenik...@fastmail.co.uk>: > > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and > > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of > > packages installed). > > > > Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard drive? What did you use as > > filing system. I am intending to use ext4. Any comments? > > If you want to be happy and trouble-free, try to avoid «Advanced > Format» disks. I have 2TB disks and 1.5TB too that work perfectly but > I've made the mistake to buy a 3TB WD Caviar Green («Advanced Format») > which I can only use on Windows as a 3TB disk, Linux only detects > about 780MB if I remember well. Try to not make the same mistake.
Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work. But with 512 byte sectors you have a 2 TB limit when you use MBR partitioning. 3 TB disks with 4 KB sectors both hardware (physical) and software (logical) should just work, provided the Linux is new enough. On Squeeze use -cu as additional options (see manpage). -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201204292027.04152.mar...@lichtvoll.de
