This One Time, at Band Camp, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:22:13PM +0100:
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 06:33 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > > > it's done, thanks, BTW what's your home partition FS? your choice is > > > > ext3 or reiserFS?? > > > I use reiserfs3.6 without notail but that doesn't mean that it would be > > > a good choice for you. I'm on laptop and disk space efficiency is a big > > > topic for me so I use tail-packing wherever suitable. And yes, I am a > > > fan of ReiserFS-3.6. I think it's the best multipurpose FS. You can > > > easily adapt it for high performance or high disk space efficiency. If > > > its journaling would be as good as Ext3's data=journal I'd use it > > > everywhere except for small partitions (ext2) and big files (ext3 and > > > xfs). > > > > One last thing, since I'm on LVM resizing the partition is a must > > > > feature, in ext3 I use resize2fs which works quite nicely, is > > > > resize_reiserfs as reliable as resize2fs is?? > > > Yes, it's just as good and the sky's the limit for resizing :) > > > Oh, by the way: If you choose to use XFS somewhere, keep in mind that > > > you can't shrink and XFS-FS. Neither online nor offline. > > > One last thing: It's a bit old but I think it's still interesting, > > > especially for XFS-users: > > > http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435 > > Thank you for your detailed answer it helped a lot, I just finished > > resizing/migrating all partitions, Though I still have the Storage > > partition, which is for my Mp3z and is almost 70Gb, with ext3, I'll > > see later if I do migrate to ReiserFS or not but the rest is done, > > please take a look at the file attached... and if you have any more > > suggestions please do tell me. > You could use the noatime mount option on all your partitions. With > atimes enabled, every time you read a file, its (mostly useless) access > time is updated which results in a write action. The only program that I > know to use atimes is mutt (for mail spools only). > You could also take a look at the link I've posted in my last message. > It contains useful mount options for XFS. Thank you for the TIP as well, I added noatime to all partitions except for /home because mutt keeps imap cache on it, I'm not sure if it's atime depending or not I should probably check it out though... Thanks :) -- Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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