[Novalug] Recommendation: USB Large harddrives 400G(and up) What is a good filesystem to use?

[Pete Nuwayser]

On Feb 3, 2008 2:15 AM, DonJr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:
> I just got a USB connected hard drive, says "500G" on the box. (but)
>  Plugged it in and Gnome(i guess) mounted it at "/media/My Data".
>  {-:Where has the fun(*) of connecting a new device gone to? :-}
>
> What would be a good format to use for the filesystem on it?
>   (The pre formatted one of FAT-32 is to limited, for my needs.)

My strategy would be to set the whole thing up as one LVM partition,
create one volume group, create various logical partitions using
reiserfs, ext3 and xfs, and then play with the resizing capabilities
of each.

xfs is generally recommended over reiser and ext3 when your files are
super-big (100G or more?), but it still works fine for general use and
you may like the tools better.

from a recovery time perspective, I've found xfs recovers from
fs/system crashes the fastest, followed by ext3 and reiserfs v3.

if you're moving this drive from one distro to another, ext3 is going
to be the best-supported IMO.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html

have fun!

Pete



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