diff --git a/bin/make-extdrive b/bin/make-extdrive
index 7516c685..756e8f8b 100755
--- a/bin/make-extdrive
+++ b/bin/make-extdrive
@@ -25,20 +25,4 @@ unset device  # safety measure to make sure we don't introduce some bug that
 cryptsetup -y -v --pbkdf-memory "$pbkdf_kb" luksFormat "$part"
 cryptsetup luksOpen --allow-discards "$part" "$cryptdev"
 
-# This drive mostly stores photos. Most of these are about 12 megabytes or so.
-# As such the cluster size should be big (probably 64k with -O bigalloc -C
-# 65536). However, bigalloc is still unstable, so don't use it.
-#
-# % find ./ -ls | awk 'BEGIN{OFMT="%f"} {sum += $7; n++;} END {print sum/n;}'
-# 12965453.184444
-#
-# On the other hand there's no way we will use one inode per 16kb, so we can
-# bump that up to 1MB per inode.
-mkfs.ext4 -L "$label" -i 1048576 "$cryptdev_path"
-
-# We can tolerate data/metadata misordering.
-tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback "$cryptdev_path"
-
-printf '%s\n' \
-    'NOTE: You may want to make sure that the users map properly, and do the following:' \
-    'sudo setfacl -b -R /srv/samba && sudo setfacl -Rdm g:docker:rx /srv/samba && sudo setfacl -Rm g:docker:rx /srv/samba'
+mkfs.ext4 -L "$label" "$cryptdev_path"