Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here <at> gmail.com> writes:
> But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust > filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery > utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest > filesystem for a desktop user that only uses 3,8G of his 54G root > partition? I care about speed, but I think that my usage pattern does > not stress the filesystem (if what Valerie Henson says is true). reiserfs, Never lost anything.....I could not recover across dozens of systems..... ymmv Backups. get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. safe and cheap. Don't bother backing up the operating system as it can be re-created. /etc is a good idea and a few other key files and your personal files.... ymmv. James
