Re: How to partition and format external disk to ext3
- From: Suno Ano <suno.ano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:19:36 +0200
hce> Hi, I bought an external disk (1 BT) and I am only connecting it
hce> to a Debian box, not window. Is it a good idea to re-fomat it by
hce> ext3? Has anyone done it? What is the procedure and commands to do
hce> it? Anything I should be aware of not demage it?
If you bought a new HDD, it might have a filesystem already. Why not use
that one as is? You can create a new filesystem too [0] of course but
that will "delete" all existing data on the disk -- you can not damage
it physically though it that is your concern; you just write new
metadata (the new filesystem) onto the disk that is all.
From my point of view, if you have a filesystem you can use right away,
do so -- why spend time for something, when afterwards nothing really
changed from a users point of view.
If however the HDD does not have a filesystem installed already and/or
you want to have a secure i.e. encrypted disk [1], then you need to
install a new filesystem. If you decide to have an encrypted disk, you
might also want to initialize the disk for better security[2].
[0] http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/dm-crypt_luks.html#create_a_file_system_on_top_of_the_logical_virtual_block_device
[1] http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/dm-crypt_luks.html#creation_of_the_logical_virtual_block_device
[2] http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/dm-crypt_luks.html#check_for_errors_and_initialize
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