On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 06:33 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > > it's done, thanks, BTW what's your home partition FS? your choice is > > > ext3 or reiserFS?? > > > > I use reiserfs3.6 without notail but that doesn't mean that it would be > > a good choice for you. I'm on laptop and disk space efficiency is a big > > topic for me so I use tail-packing wherever suitable. And yes, I am a > > fan of ReiserFS-3.6. I think it's the best multipurpose FS. You can > > easily adapt it for high performance or high disk space efficiency. If > > its journaling would be as good as Ext3's data=journal I'd use it > > everywhere except for small partitions (ext2) and big files (ext3 and > > xfs). > > > > One last thing, since I'm on LVM resizing the partition is a must > > > feature, in ext3 I use resize2fs which works quite nicely, is > > > resize_reiserfs as reliable as resize2fs is?? > > > > Yes, it's just as good and the sky's the limit for resizing :) > > Oh, by the way: If you choose to use XFS somewhere, keep in mind that > > you can't shrink and XFS-FS. Neither online nor offline. > > > One last thing: It's a bit old but I think it's still interesting, > > especially for XFS-users: > > > http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435 > > Thank you for your detailed answer it helped a lot, I just finished > resizing/migrating all partitions, Though I still have the Storage > partition, which is for my Mp3z and is almost 70Gb, with ext3, I'll > see later if I do migrate to ReiserFS or not but the rest is done, > please take a look at the file attached... and if you have any more > suggestions please do tell me. >
You could use the noatime mount option on all your partitions. With atimes enabled, every time you read a file, its (mostly useless) access time is updated which results in a write action. The only program that I know to use atimes is mutt (for mail spools only). You could also take a look at the link I've posted in my last message. It contains useful mount options for XFS.
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