Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop
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David R. Litwin wrote:
> Hallo friendly list:
>
> I've decided that windows has to go and a swap has to come. So, I'm a gonna
> clear the hard drive of my Toshiba satellite A70 laptop and give myself a
> new start on life. Now, I've been looking about some. It seems that ext3 or
> xfs are the best filesystems, with /boot being on a seperate ext2 partition
> using xfs (do I need to do this?). Is this true? Is it true of a laptop
> which I use for every day desktop purposes? I hear also that xfs is a pain
> to deal with if the system crashes. Is this true?
For simplicity, IMHO, stick with ext3, since it's the most widely
used fs and therefore (a) the most debugged, and (b) has good
maintenance tools.
reiserfs is great if you are going to have lots of small files. On
a mail server, for example.
xfs is great for *huge* files. Video/audio editing, running a PVR, etc.
I set up the partitions in this order:
/boot 50MB
/ 12*GB* (this strongly depends on how big your drive is)
/home the balance of the space on the drive.
Note that there are no swap partitions. This is because I use swap
*files*, which give you much more flexibility. (In case you add
more RAM later, you just add another swapfile, whereas with
partitions, you're stuck with your initial partition map.)
> How so? Finally, I've
> heard of zfs. Is this worth looking in to more?
zfs, I'm 99.9% sure, is only implemented on Solaris.
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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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