[wellylug] Finally going to do it .. only ...

[jumbophut]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:28:03 +1300, Ian Beardslee  wrote:
> 
> ** How do people partition their large drives and what file systems do
> they use?
> 

I've always found ext2/ext3 to be the best supported by disk
management tools, although it's been a while since I looked at what's
available for Reiser/XFS/JFS.  For example, the next time you decide
to resize a partition (down to create room for a new partition or up
to swallow another partition), which tool will you use?  parted is my
tool of choice and it didn't used to have great support for anything
but FAT/ext2/ext3.

One thing worth noting with ext3 is that you cannot easily recover
deleted files.  The ext3 FAQ maintainer goes so far as to say that the
best you can do is grep on the raw blocks.  Of course, you have
recourse to backups, so this doesn't matter, but it's worth knowing in
advance (you do have backups, right?).

Also, nobody has talked about LVM yet.  I've never used it, but it
seems to be the ultimate in flexibility as far a partition management
goes.  Anybody care to comment?  (Actually, there is this, from one of
our own: <http://www.cuba.st/archives/000256.html>, but LVM might
still be useful for moving partitions around on a single disk without
a total reinstall?).

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')