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On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 06:33 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: |
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> > > it's done, thanks, BTW what's your home partition FS? your choice is |
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> > > ext3 or reiserFS?? |
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> > I use reiserfs3.6 without notail but that doesn't mean that it would be |
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> > a good choice for you. I'm on laptop and disk space efficiency is a big |
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> > topic for me so I use tail-packing wherever suitable. And yes, I am a |
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> > fan of ReiserFS-3.6. I think it's the best multipurpose FS. You can |
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> > easily adapt it for high performance or high disk space efficiency. If |
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> > its journaling would be as good as Ext3's data=journal I'd use it |
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> > everywhere except for small partitions (ext2) and big files (ext3 and |
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> > xfs). |
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> > > One last thing, since I'm on LVM resizing the partition is a must |
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> > > feature, in ext3 I use resize2fs which works quite nicely, is |
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> > > resize_reiserfs as reliable as resize2fs is?? |
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> > Yes, it's just as good and the sky's the limit for resizing :) |
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> > Oh, by the way: If you choose to use XFS somewhere, keep in mind that |
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> > you can't shrink and XFS-FS. Neither online nor offline. |
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> > One last thing: It's a bit old but I think it's still interesting, |
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> > especially for XFS-users: |
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> > http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1479435 |
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> Thank you for your detailed answer it helped a lot, I just finished |
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> resizing/migrating all partitions, Though I still have the Storage |
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> partition, which is for my Mp3z and is almost 70Gb, with ext3, I'll |
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> see later if I do migrate to ReiserFS or not but the rest is done, |
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> please take a look at the file attached... and if you have any more |
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> suggestions please do tell me. |
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You could use the noatime mount option on all your partitions. With |
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atimes enabled, every time you read a file, its (mostly useless) access |
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time is updated which results in a write action. The only program that I |
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know to use atimes is mutt (for mail spools only). |
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You could also take a look at the link I've posted in my last message. |
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It contains useful mount options for XFS. |
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