Alex: it's good thing in Linux, that you can go with XFS or ZFS (if you are SUN fan), all of those are well established file systems with proven records. And a dozen other file systems. Anybody remembers Reiserfs?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Linux I prefer XFS. I'm an SGI geek. :) > > " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, > the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all > irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and > warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all > damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG > episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith > - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think Howard makes it ext3, unless he is lazy and lets it default to 4 >> or whatever. <grin> >> >> Ext3 and others are 'compatible' but each extra version takes about 10% >> of disk space for the services that the other versions provide. Normally >> not a big deal, but if you don't write often to a partition or mainly read, >> ext2 or 3 is perfectly fine. (reduces journaling areas and 'temporary data >> areas' that allow for more rapid writes. Working with Howard a long time >> ago building a backup system we figured that out. >> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Thank for the responses! >>> Howard: inodes? inodes are atomic part of the ext type file systems (and >>> some other UNIX file systems too). I haven't ever heard of trouble because >>> of running out of inodes. How big is the partition? Is it ext3? >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 03/08/2015 04:20 PM, JMJ wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 03/08/2015 04:04 PM, Csaba Toth wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if your boot can fill up if you have too many versions of >>>>>> kernels. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That hasn't actually happened on my system, but I think it CAN happen >>>>> if >>>>> /boot is a separate partition. I usually only keep 1 or 2 kernels >>>>> installed specifically to avoid that issue. This is one reason I was >>>>> thinking about putting /boot back on the / partition. >>>>> >>>>> JMJ >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The answer is "yes" as I do keep a separate boot partition (out of old >>>> habit) and yes I do have to go clean it out periodically. In Ubuntu, the >>>> software updater informs one rather bluntly that a kernel upgrade is not >>>> possible for lack of space however the system is not compromised. I go >>>> clean out the boot partition save the last two or three and then do the >>>> software update again. No big deal. >>>> >>>> I recently upgraded a long time desktop system of mine from Ubuntu 10.4 >>>> to 14.4 (he who has had bad experience with Ubuntu upgrades) and was >>>> thwarted in a subsequent update by a lack of inodes on the / file system. >>>> I had to go clean out the /usr/src directory for all the old linux headers >>>> that I no longer require. Not a space issue but inodes. Learned a new >>>> twist on the df command: df -hi. >>>> >>>> Howard >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ >>>> googlegroups.com >>>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >>>> group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>>> >>>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "NLUG" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ><> ... Jack >> >> "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 >> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - >> Albert Einstein >> "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral >> Grace Hopper, USN >> "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. 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