On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:

> So I have a lot of docs (specs of microcontrollers, howtos, programm
> and source code docs...etc) on my disk.
> This one part.

Those are fairly normal files.

> Then: I often transer videos from my DVB-T-receiver/recorder to my
> harddisk to cut out the advertising and to transcode the videos to
> somethings better than "ts" (transport streams),

These tend to be bigger, often in the GB range, so I'd use a separate
filesystem for them with XFS, which handles large files better in my
experience.

> Then I want something encrypted, either as a partition or as a files
> (carrying a encrypted fs), which I can copy to dvd and will be able 
> to mount this dvd and use it without to have to copy the whole dvd
> first to harddisk before using it...
> Currently I am using encfs...(outdated?). What can I do use instead?

ecryptfs does much the same job as encfs but is in the kernel.

I'd say something like reiser3 for most areas and an XFS filesystem for
the videos would be a good starting point. I would strongly recommend you
use LVM and only set up volumes for what you need. That gives you extra
space to play with and even experiment with different filesystems to see
which work for you.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant.