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File-system for linux ?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:36 am
by methos
I have been using windows versions for years and have decided to move to linux. My HD's file-system is NTFS. What is a modern file-system for linux ? Any recommended programs for reformatting ?
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:40 am
by dude81
by default ext3
Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:32 am
by Jenk
you'll need to use ext2 for /boot and /swap, but ext3 is fine and dandy for any other partition you wish to make.
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:53 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Jenk wrote:you'll need to use ext2 for /boot and /swap, but ext3 is fine and dandy for any other partition you wish to make.
Huh?
/boot and /swap use ext2?
Actually, /swap uses swapfs, and technically this would suffice as a file, no partition needed:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1024 count=512
mkswap /var/swap
swapon /var/swap
/boot needs ext2? What bootloader are you using? Grub works with ext2, ext3, resierfs. Lilo definitely works with ext2 and 3; I cant say if it works with reiser. Is this what the Gentoo tutorials are feeding ya?

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:29 pm
by evilmonkey
You can actually run Linux off NTFS nowdays. Take a look at NTFS-3G. BETA VERSION!
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:49 pm
by jayshields
Get Solaris and make use of ZFS if you're all about file systems

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:33 pm
by Jenk
d11wtq wrote:Jenk wrote:you'll need to use ext2 for /boot and /swap, but ext3 is fine and dandy for any other partition you wish to make.
Huh?
/boot and /swap use ext2?
Actually, /swap uses swapfs, and technically this would suffice as a file, no partition needed:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap bs=1024 count=512
mkswap /var/swap
swapon /var/swap
/boot needs ext2? What bootloader are you using? Grub works with ext2, ext3, resierfs. Lilo definitely works with ext2 and 3; I cant say if it works with reiser. Is this what the Gentoo tutorials are feeding ya?

grub on ext3 was beta last I heard. My bad.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:25 pm
by Chris Corbyn
I'd like to have a go with some SQL filesystem. Anyone know of one for *nix? Isn't Windows Vista supposed to have integrated a SQLFS?
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:30 pm
by Jenk
There is a fuse module libsqlfs, though that's only what google is telling me.
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:36 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Cool. I have this Mac OS X at my fingertips here, and in truly ungeeky fashion I've barely experimented with compiling the mach kernel or anything. My point... I'm not sure if I can run things like fuse on OS X. I'll try it at work as I'm curious how it all goes together. It'd be pretty neat to run your entire OS on top of a SQL filesystem if you could get some console up to query it.
Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 10:18 am
by collette
The file system ext2 is old and slow but can be used for your boot partition. Better still, use ext3 (it is compatible with ext2 so you can almost always access your boot partition).
As for all the other partitions, use anything but ext2 and/or ext3. I have used Reiser file system, XFS and JFS. Currently all "other" partitions on my server are formatted with Reiser. It works perfectly, is fast enough for me and has some advantages over the other file systems. All my "other" partition are raid 5 with lvm2 on top. With Reiser it is possible and easy to shrink and to enlarge logical volumes.
I know, it can also been done with ext3, XFS and JFS, but not as easy as with Reiser.
As fas as I know, all Linux distro's support Reiser, while they not always support XFS and JFS.
There are circumstances where Reiser is not the best thing to choose. But if you are not running a large news-server, I think you will find Reiser also the best choose.
The bootloader I use is Lilo. The latest version of Lilo works with ext2, ext3, Reiser, XFS, JFS and some others. About Grub, don't ask me, never used it.
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:16 am
by JohnLynx
ext3 fs is really good, thats why I prefer Linux instead FreeBSD