On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote:
> On 2015-02-10, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck
> > taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read
> > that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume without painful
> > swapping.
>
> It vastly depends on the number of files you have on there.
And if you know in advance that the files will be large
("video editing"?) and there will not be many of them,
you might benefit from 'newfs -i' (and other options)
when creating the file system.
