[TriLUG] What filesystem would you use for a laptop?

Owen oberry at trilug.org
Fri Jan 25 10:42:28 EST 2008


On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:33:22AM -0500, Magnus wrote:
> I've messed around with Xfs on my home boxes but not on production
> servers yet and have been pleased with it.  See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfs

I'm using xfs on my mythtv box because it's good for large files. There
are reports that it's memory usage is relatively high, so you might want
to check that out. Also, you can't shrink partitions, which also applies
to jfs.

Owen



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