Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

[Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>]

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On Tuesday 09 August 2005 20:14, Billy Holmes wrote:
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> I use ext3 on an external harddrive, as I believe in the data recovery
> aspects of ext3. For my desktop machines, I use xfs. For servers, I use
> ext3 unless I really feel I need the extra performance, then I use xfs.

You really *do* speak out of my mind ;-) Well, I share the same oppinions 
about these FSs and have the same fs setups as you (obviousely!).

> > I do not know of any Linux filesystem that can be resized while still
> > mounted.
>
> $ man xfs_growfs
[...]
> you *must* have the filesystem mounted in order to use xfs_growfs. XFS
> lends itself VERY well to lvm2 (which also runs on all my desktops).

This confused me the first time I wanted to growfs my /home; However, it has 
been a little bit funny aswell, as ext3 (originally) only supported offline 
growings.

However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of mine from 
within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/rac; I were nearly 
crying about, but before, I quickly invoked fsck.xfs on my LVM (which this 
disk is part of) and *really* got confused.
fsck.xfs is really a no-op. I couldn't figure out yet why. I can now just pray 
that everything seems to go just well (as it does till now ;)

Regards,
Christian Parpart.

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