[ILUG] Externam USB disk

[Gerard Hooton]

Yes, it has it's own PSU
mkfs is writing 7543 inode tables



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From: kae at verens.com <kae at verens.com>
To: g.hooton at ucc.ie
Cc: ILUG Users Group <ilug at linux.ie>
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Externam USB disk
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:09:48 +0100
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On 07/17/2009 02:06 PM, Gerard Hooton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a 1TB usb external disk
> Writing inode tables (mkfs command) is taking forever , like hours.
> Is that to be expected?
>
>
>    
no. I created an ext3 file system on a 1TB drive only a few weeks ago, 
and it just took a few minutes.

power problem? that's what I'd suggest for smaller drive where the drive 
itself was powered by USB. can't think what would affect a 1TB drive, 
though, which I presume has its own power supply.

kae
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