Ed_P wrote:As for no mention of Win 10 in the documentation to me would indicate the drive/manual were packaged 3 or more yrs ago.
Thinking along those lines being special offer, but as they seem to be such buddies with Micro$oft you'd think would have got pre-release copy for testing.
Ed_P wrote:Personally I don't recommend reformatting a new drive. The vendor set it up this way for a reason and the clusters are probably aligned for performance. You reformat it you're on your own when it comes to support in some cases. Partitioning on the other hand I have no problem with.
That's why not rushing things, As a first step being to shrink the FAT filesystem.
Ed_P wrote:Why do you want to partition it? Why can't you just create folders on it for your videos?
Videos was just special case. Main aim being to back up hdd of 250 GB, which weighs in at 232.88 GiB. Doing it in least expensive manner, computing power and memory wise:
- Clone Drive:
- rsync the Arch Way
Already each having to have partition of 233 GiB.
Ed_P wrote:Bogomips wrote: but program insists on doing it.
What program?
KDE4 Partition Manager
Thanks tome,beny. Took a bit longer this time, before coming up with error after 6 secs. Also on GParted min and max partition size just differ by 9 MiB;
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root@porteus:/home/guest# gdisk -l /dev/sdb
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
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Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
in memory.
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Disk /dev/sdb: 732566642 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 4096 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): ED6DD7B0-FB74-4469-B2C3-290123E431A0
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 6, last usable sector is 732566636
Partitions will be aligned on 256-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2887 sectors (11.3 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 256 732563999 2.7 TiB 0700 Microsoft basic data
Looks like Linux could be up to the task. So, should I put my faith in Linux and go the
GPT Way?
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB