What filesystem do you use?

[s0lus]

I was wondering what type of filesystem everyone is using...

I would like to eventually change once i get back to school...

:)

[kosmosik]

reiserfs here

[ghaefb]

ReiserFS here too

[foolish]

I use them all. ext2 for my boot partition, ext3 for my home partition (I've been using this home partition since Red Hat Linux 8), xfs on my data disk (Mostly large files, xfs is excelent for larger files) and reiserfs for the root partition.

[ghaefb]

I use them all. ext2 for my boot partition, ext3 for my home partition (I've been using this home partition since Red Hat Linux 8), xfs on my data disk (Mostly large files, xfs is excelent for larger files) and reiserfs for the root partition.

Few questions:

Why do you use ext2 for boot?
Is there a good reason?

How did you get reiserfs to work on your root partition?
ReiserFS is compiled as module in generic FC2 kernel, so if I set my / partition as reiserfs, I get an error when booting. (because the module is not loaded)
System can't mount / partition if reiserfs....
:confused:

[friez]

i use jfs which is not an option there :eek:

[Picomp314]

hmmm...
i guess next time i reformat i will have to use reiserfs
i am still on ext2 and ext3

[Ned]

default Ext3 here

read some interesting stuff about XFS though.

Few questions:

Why do you use ext2 for boot?
Is there a good reason?


Could it be something to do with not needing an initial ramdisk to boot ext2 compared with ext3 because ext3 is compiled as module?? Or do I have this wrong.

Ned

[crackers]

ext3 because I'm lazy enough to accept it (since it's the "default") and it works quite well for me. But then I don't go for bleeing edge speed in all aspects since this is a workstation and I'm not doing anything that's all that intensive.

[PsyGhost]

ext3.
Someone told me reiser is much better, but since it's now supported by the anaconda installer or the fedora generic kernel it makes it a bit harder to make the root partition resier, Didn't say it's impossible though.

[s0lus]

o another thing, when installing is there an option to change the filesystem?

how would i go about changing the filesystem?

[Tashiro]

Hello everybody,

I am using ext3.

When you are in the diskdruid part of anaconda, to divide you harddisk into partitions you can change the filesystem. Once installed you can't!!

Could someone explain what ReiserFS is?? It isn't by default an option in FC2 is it, i don't remember
I could choose it?

Tashiro

[crackers]

When you are in the diskdruid part of anaconda, to divide you harddisk into partitions you can change the filesystem. Once installed you can't!!
Not quite entirely true: you can backup the partition you want to change and reformat your victim, then restore from the backup. It's not "elegant" and does take a bit of time and care, but it can be done.

[s0lus]

im most likely will be doing a new install of FC3 once it is released and i get back to school with its really fast internet connection. I plan on using reiserfs because from looking at the tests done comparing these filesystems i feel that reiserfs is the best choice...hopefully my comp wont blow up or something...hehe

[ghaefb]

Anyone interested in diferent filesystems, read -> here (http://www.linuxgeek.net/beginners/node101.html)

ReiserFS -> http://www.namesys.com/
Some benchmarks -> here (http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/fs/old.php), here (http://oregonstate.edu/~kveton/fs/page2.php), here (http://bulma.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642)

If you want ReiserFS supprot in anaconda(DiskDruid) at boot prompt: linux reiserfs

[Ug]

ext3 because I'm lazy enough to accept it (since it's the "default") and it works quite well for me. But then I don't go for bleeing edge speed in all aspects since this is a workstation and I'm not doing anything that's all that intensive.
Ditto, i've never really contemplated using anything else.

[earobinson111]

hey i use fat32 also cuz i have info i want windows computer on my network to see

[s0lus]

at my school ppl can access my shares and I was running ext3 at the time...just use samba...it doesnt need to be a fat32 partition...

[Ned]

hey i use fat32 also cuz i have info i want windows computer on my network to see

Yes, the only reason to have a fat32 partition is if you're dual-booting with windows and you want to share data between linux and windows on the same machine.

Over a network, just use Samba on your linux box (or Unix Tools for Windows on your Windows box).

[WebWind]

I am running ext3

[s0lus]

i just finished switching over to reiserfs.....excellent.....

i love it already! i think....

[ghaefb]

i just finished switching over to reiserfs.....excellent.....

i love it already! i think....
Cool :)

Anyway...
Reiser4 has been released -> http://namesys.com/download.html

[Varkk]

I was going to use reiser but the whole issue with it not being in the boot image was enough for me to roll back to ext3. I will probably use reiser4 sometime in the near future when I get a new HDD, I will probably keep my /boot and / partitions on my 80gb drive and put resiser on a new HDD and make that /home

[seph]

EXT3 here.... and FAT32 for my shared partition

seph

[zylr]

Ext3.
It works.
Im happy with it.
Why not?

[Shadow Skill]

What is riser fs? One of the the other distro's used it, I'm just curious what are its advantages? Its too bad I don't trust ntfs write support yet otherwise I would use Fedora even more than I do now. (I honestly hope ntfs writing gets fixed before longhorn comes out and we have to scrap NTFS and go with WINFS. One other question where can I find information about WINFS?)