Hey, I just picked up a 500GB external USB hard drive. It was formatted as VFAT (go figure). I nuked that, and decided to repartition it 400GB for Linux and 100GB VFAT. I was considering trying out btrfs on this drive, and wanted to get opinions and possibly advice on the best approach.
I was thinking about setting up a btrfs filesystem on this drive since it will be mainly be data from my home workstation that I will be using on my work laptop, so the data will be safely elsewhere. Both the home workstation and the work laptop are running sid (2.6.32-5-amd64), so it should be a no brainer to set up to run on both. In fact, since I used the package list from the workstation, everything should be on the laptop as well (e.g. btrfs-tools, etc). Is this a valid use case for btrfs? Is there a set of Debian docs for using btrfs? (I am reading the btrfs wiki) Any experiences, positive or negative from using btrfs in this use scenario? Thanks, --b -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=bqnxlvny8jwuflclctyzqwv_ies594aetv...@mail.gmail.com
