I never said I was or wasn't. We were just commenting on the length of proper formats - but maybe you missed that entire thread. On Mar 9, 2011, at 7:26 AM, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:58:57PM -0600, Yaron wrote: >> Been there, done that (; This is how I know it takes forever. >> >> On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> >>> Try mkfs on a 7TB RAID. > > How is that relevant to an actual _installation_ of the operating > system? You are not placing any OS files on that drive anyway.