On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 02:51:53 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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.) > But IIRC swap files are slower then swap partitions. Probably a better solution is to have a basic swap partition and then add swap files as needed (it I recall there is also a utility for automatically adding swap files but I don't remember more). > > 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. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > Is "common sense" really valid? > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFEh9cZS9HxQb37XmcRAl7VAJ93UFTpHfzxcbUIsjDfd7Yw9Bbe1QCfWroF > UYIJw4e2uIwByCPcRJfNdl8= > =A0+U > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
