On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:13 +0100, david lutton wrote: > I'm considering getting a ubuntu server. > But I don't know what would be the most suitable file system for the > type of usage that it will get, given that these partitions could be > on different disks if necessary. What would you use for ... > > Databases > htdocs >
I see no reason not to just use the default ext3. Other filesystems _may_ yield better performance on a very busy system, but for _most_ users ext3 is a good balance of performance, stability and reliability. > or to be more precise what options would you put in /etc/fstab ? > You can't change the filesystem type just by editing /etc/fstab. The filesystem needs to be formatted in one way or another, then fstab is populated based on what the type is. > and this is the stupid bit but is there a control where your supposed > to edit /etc/fstab because my system didn't seem to want to hear about > auto-mounting after I changed it manually. Working as designed. Mess with fstab at your peril! :) Cheers, Al.
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