-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2008-12-24 at 22:31 -0000, Bob Williams wrote: ...
I think your point about long fsck times is valid, and one I need to consider. This is a personal home machine, not a data server. Some data in /home/bob is modified frequently, whereas other data is write once, read often. For example, I have about 380GB of music in flac format, which I had thought of putting on its own partition, possibly formatted as ext2.
Don't use ext2. It will force you to do an fsck now and then, and it will take a long time to do it. Better XFS, specially for large files.
I don't mind putting a bit of effort into planning a good strategy.
I prefer to divide onto several partitions: it makes possible to choose filesystem type for each type of data or usage, and is somewhat safer, like compartmentalization on ships. The disadvantage is that you may run out of space in one partition while you have space on another... LVM is a solution for that, but I personally don't like it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklWHFsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VW6wCfdUPbew9eAMLcIt3mE93q+Jcy wAcAnR9fpqiEmdBCagANfFzHtzCBIKI5 =hYH7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org