On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 12:45, Norman Walsh wrote: > Supposing I pony up the cash and buy myself the 160Gb external > Firewire drive and get it all working, what's the collective opinion > on filesystems for it? One great big EXT2 partition? A few somewhat > smaller ones? One of the journaling filesystems?
I have a maxtor 80 GB firewire (more then pricey enough here in europe :( ) Mine has a 80 GB VFAT partition, so I can use this amount of space both in Linux and Windows, especially since it's a 'portable' drive, This could be handy to connect it to systems from friends etc. If you intend to only use it yourself, and only on linux systems I recommend using a journaling filesystem (ext3). And depending on what you need to put on it, either 1 or multiple smaller ones. Mine is just a 80 Gig /data where I park my movies and ogg's and some tarballs for backups and kernel/application sources. -- Mark Janssen Unix / Linux, Open-Source and Internet Consultant @ SyConOS IT E-mail: mark(at)markjanssen.nl / maniac(at)maniac.nl GnuPG Key Id: 357D2178 WWW Maniac.nl Unix-God.[Net|Org] MarkJanssen.[com|net|org|nl] SyConOS.[com|nl] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
