So does anyone on this list have experience using the other file system types that SuSE offers out of the box? And if so, can you please elaborate which is the "best" to use? There are quite a few from what I gather like ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, Reiser FS.
I just use the pc at home as a workstation, not a server.
You could start a massive debate with this, but given that last sentence quoted above, here's the bottom line: It doesn't really matter. Honestly. People will jump up and down yelling how one filesystem is better than another in such and such a situation, and others will jump higher and yell louder about how those people are wrong. Yeah yeah. For someone using a home PC, with one or twos disks, for general purpose stuff, it would be nigh on impossible to tell the difference between modern filesystems. Pick a mainstream, mature jouralling one - SuSE support and favour ReiserFS - and you'll have decent tools and meta-data protection in case of failure. That's all you need. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003