Best HDD format for Vero 4k+? (And how to do so!)

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Nope

You should not use space in the Label. It just creates issues as you would have to “escape” them every time

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Argh, LINUX!
Is it okay to use CAPITAL letters?

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Yes, you also can use _.
No problem to use space you just would need to escape it with \

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Thanks for the quick reply.
I just used:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 -T largefile4 -m 1 -L SeagateBackupPlus8TB

Then I get:

Warning: label too long; will be truncated to 'SeagateBackupPlu'

Great now I need to rename it!
But I don’t see it in df:

osmc@osmc:~$ df
Filesystem          1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs               774688        0    774688   0% /dev
tmpfs                  899236    16876    882360   2% /run
/dev/vero-nand/root  14499760 10138932   3601228  74% /
tmpfs                  899236        0    899236   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  899236        0    899236   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs                  179844        0    179844   0% /run/user/1000
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Did you reboot or unplug/replug?

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No, just did a:

e2label /dev/sda1 Seagate8TB

Do I need to reboot to automount?

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Well you need to trigger an action either reboot or unplug/replug

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Okay, got it after ‘reboot’.

/dev/sda1           7811937256    94236 7733686384   1% /media/Seagate8TB

Used space looks better now.

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How much space was used after you formatted to ext4?

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osmc@osmc:~$ df
Filesystem          1K-blocks      Used      Availabl    Use%     Mounted on
/dev/sda1          7811937256     94236     7733686384     1%     /media/Seagate8TB
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What did you use to format the drive?
I tried to format my 8tb seagate and its using 117gb after format so ended up formatting in exfat
But then again I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing
Tried following what’s been posted in this thread, but just doesn’t to work for me

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He formatted using OSMC, he showed all the commands he used

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But be careful, using that command would nuke all your data on the first connected drive

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Someone correct me if i’m wrong, but doesn’t exfat have some issues with OSMC and carry the same performance hit as ntfs?

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exFAT will perform better than NTFS (it’s still a userland driver) but worse than EXT4. It’s a good compromise for people who need to move a drive between Windows and linux.

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The samba issues still exist though don’t they?

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The network protocol performance is separate from the drive performance. Of course, poor drive performance will appear to affect network performance. And poor network performance will appear to affect drive performance. But they are different. It can be difficult sometimes to find a bottleneck in these cases. Using something like dd to copy files locally and then to the same drive over the network can help find where the performance issue is. If all access is linux to linux then the best combination will always be NFS/EXT4.

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I was actually referring to failing large file transfers and no status when transferring to/from an exFat formatted drive connected to OSMC over a samba connection. With a failed transfer being a bigger issue when being done to a non journaled file system.

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Like I said, finding issues like this are best done with testing with a tool like dd. Run dd on the host (assuming it’s not windows) and create a large file on the drive. Then do the same test over the network from the client. On a network mounted drive, the client does not know how the drive is formatted. The host handles those details.

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I meant did he use putty or gparted?