[PLUG] New drive quandary

[briand at aracnet.com]

Ken,


If it's just going to be a backup system then the choice is not
important.

I'd just stick with ext2 - well supported, mature and you shouldn't
care about fsck's.

If you do care about fsck's and want a journaling system then I
recommend reiserfs.  I've been using it for quite a while with 0
problems.

Brian

>>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth G Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> writes:

  Kenneth> Well now that I have a 36.1 gigabyte 10,000 hard drive.  I
  Kenneth> have a problem.

  Kenneth> I have been running <shudder>Windows 2000</shudder> on my
  Kenneth> main mail reader, photo editor, bigger memory PII 266 Mhz
  Kenneth> with 384 MB RAM system, with a mother board that has
  Kenneth> on-board SCSI to which is connected a scanner and zip
  Kenneth> drive. I have also sort of retired my use-to-be firewall
  Kenneth> web server <cheer>Linux</cheer> system back from the
  Kenneth> firewall, since I obtained a D-Link 707 Firewall/switch.

  Kenneth> I have not formatted it yet and am wondering what would be
  Kenneth> the best file system to use.  I want to use the hard drive
  Kenneth> as a back up for my other systems. (Did I mention, the
  Kenneth> spouse's <shudder>Windows 98</shudder> PIII 1.2 MHz 512MB
  Kenneth> RAM, 20 GB Hard drive system?)  One of these days I will
  Kenneth> get up the nerve and try to get to just Linux at home, but
  Kenneth> until then, I will be putting this new drive on the
  Kenneth> <shudder>Windows 2000</shudder> machine.

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