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This One Time, at Band Camp, Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> said, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 06:22:13PM +0100: |
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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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Thank you for the TIP as well, I added noatime to all partitions |
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except for /home because mutt keeps imap cache on it, I'm not sure if |
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it's atime depending or not I should probably check it out though... |
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Thanks :) |
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Wael Nasreddine |
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http://wael.nasreddine.com |
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.: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, |
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would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. |
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