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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What should I format my SSD with? Post 302922842 by mrm5102 on Tuesday 28th of October 2014 03:54:23 PM
Old 10-28-2014
What should I format my SSD with?
Hello All,

I recently received a new SSD that I am going to use for the purpose of Booting Virtual Machines. I use VMWare Player to boot Windows Guest Operating Systems onto my Linux Laptop.

I currently have a SSD drive that I use for this exact same purpose that is formatted as ext3 and I'm wondering if I should format the new one with this same format? Is there preferred format to use for booting Virtual Machines? My current SSD has some age to it and is only 128 GB, and my new one is 256 GB.

Not sure if it's my OS or the drive itself or even the age of the Disk, but almost everyday palimpsest, *i.e. OpenSuSE's Disk Utility program, warns me about errors/issues in the SMART data. Usually if I go into the program and refresh the SMART data for that drive the error(s) go away so I'm not sure if the program is just not geared toward SSDs since some of the errors I don't think apply to SSD drives, like errors for SpinUp Time since SSD's have no moving parts, or even Head Flying Hours since SSD's don't have that either. Which is why I thought it was strange I would get errors on those specific things...

But anyway, what would be a preferred formatting option for an External SSD that will contain and run Virtual Machines from..?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

vmware-xferlogs

VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1)						   Open VM Tools						VMWARE-XFERLOGS(1)

NAME

       vmware-xferlogs - dump vm-support output to vmx logfile

SYNOPSIS

       vmware-xferlogs OPTIONS FILE

DESCRIPTION

       vmware-xferlogs is a simple console application and can be run as any user. It is based on rpctool to dump the vm-support output to the vmx
       log file base64 encoded. It can dump any file supplied on the commandline to the vmx log. It also does the decoding part of it. It can read
       the vmware.log file decode and write the encoded files in the directory it was invoked.

       Example of a transfer found in the vmx log file:

	    Aug  24  18:48:09:	vcpu-0|  Guest:  >Logfile  Begins  :  /root/install.log:  ver  - 1	Aug 24 18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >SW5zdGFs-
       bGluZyA0NDEgcGFja2FnZXMKCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgZ2xpYmMtY29tbW9uLTIuMi41LTM0	    Aug    24	 18:48:09:    vcpu-0|	  Guest:     >LgpJbnN0YWx-
       saW5nIGh3ZGF0YS0wLjE0LTEuCkluc3RhbGxpbmcgaW5kZXhodG1sLTcuMy0zLgpJ       Aug  24	18:48:09: vcpu-0| Guest: >bnN0YWxsaW5nIG1haWxjYXAtMi4xLjk-
       tMi4KSW5zdGFsbGluZyBtYW4tcGFnZXMtMS40OC0yLgpJ	  ....	     ....	Aug 24	18:48:10:  vcpu-0|  Guest:  >Mi4K	Aug  24  18:48:10:
       vcpu-0| Guest: >Logfile Ends

OPTIONS

       enc

       dec

SEE ALSO

       vmware-checkvm(1)
       vmware-hgfsclient(1)
       vmware-toolbox(1)
       vmware-toolbox-cmd(1)
       vmware-user(1)
       libguestlib(3)
       libvmtools(3)
       vmware-guestd(8)
       vmware-hgfsmounter(8)
       vmware-user-suid-wrapper(8)
       vmblock(9)
       vmci(9)
       vmhgfs(9)
       vmmemctl(9)
       vmsock(9)
       vmsync(9)
       vmxnet(9)
       vmxnet3(9)

HOMEPAGE

       More information about vmware-xferlogs and the Open VM Tools can be found at <http://open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR

       Open VM Tools were written by VMware, Inc. <http://www.vmware.com/>.

       This  manual  page  was	put  together from homepage materials by Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net>, for the Debian
       project (but may be used by others).

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