There's some interesting discussion to be found by googling reiserfs vs
ext3. JFS and XFS also look interesting for large file sizes (media
files). I use JFS on my Kanotix install, seems quite nice.
Lance
Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:41:04 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
hda1 32M /boot
Why do people bother with this nonsense?
Because on a 300G hard drive and an old bios, i wanted to ensure that the
kernel is somewhere where the bios can find it. Once the kernel is loaded it
will read the whole drive.
hda2 500M swap
hda3 20G /
hda4 270 something /home (for the storage)
/ and /home are formatted ext3. I anticipate quite large files. I
formatted them quite simply with mke2fs -j.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda4 257G 129M 244G 1% /home
Compare with fdisk -l /dev/hda and tune2fs -l /dev/hda4.
What's the max size of ext2/3?
Try enlarging the filesystem (fsck, resize2fs).
Before I start filling it up, is there a better way to format it?
Yes, reiserfs ;)
Any quick pointers on why you say that (and are you suggesting 3 or 4?)
Volker
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