Hard drive space

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Jayn
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A rejoint: 08/27/2010

I have a 320 GB HDD which I want to get the most space out of after it is formatted. What file system is best? Thanks

Luis A. Guzmán García
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A rejoint: 06/13/2009

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:23 AM, <name at domain> wrote:

> I have a 320 GB HDD which I want to get the most space out of after it is
> formatted. What file system is best? Thanks
>

If you want to storage a lot of data, XFS is a good choice.
Beware that this is a file system used on GNU/Linux & alike. Don't expect Ms
Windows to read it (in case where talking on a portable disk)

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Jayn
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A rejoint: 08/27/2010

What I mean is that I want the formatting data itself to take the least space possible and thus leave me with the most of my 320 gb drive.

Travis King
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A rejoint: 08/07/2010

On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:13:19 +0200 (CEST)
name at domain wrote:

> What I mean is that I want the formatting data itself to take the
> least space possible and thus leave me with the most of my 320 gb
> drive.

First and quick: When you run the installer make sure that the
partition where you store most of your data is formatted to have 0%
reserved for root. This usually is set at the default of 5%, and if you
have 300GB to partition and mkfs you already lost something like
15GB in the reservation. It probably isn't a good idea from a system's
administration viewpoint, but as a personal machine it should be fine
(plus you might want to play with quotas).

There really isn't a feasible option(yet) on GNU+Linux in regards to
transparent filesystem compression, which is what I would suggest.

You could put your /home in a FUSE FS which has some zlib compression
or other, there are a few of them out there that do that - however
all the files in the rest of your filesystem wouldn't be compressed
(which would be nice to see due to the nature of having a zillion small
files throughout /*). ZFS provides compression and there is some
ZFS-in-userspace (due to CDDL incompatibilities with GPL'd Linux, ZFS
cannot be in the kernel).

However, if you're OK with the cutting edge you can grab the latest
kernel and try btrfs(not sure if you can boot from this yet) which
provides compression and is seen as the way forward in terms of Linux
filesystems.

Remember backups.

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A rejoint: 02/25/2010

Personally, I believe that life is too short to worry about file systems.  I'd just go with the default.

Jayn
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A rejoint: 08/27/2010

I think learning to adapt the software is more in line with free software- otherwise I might as well wait for the "developers" to fix it for me, right? I had no idea so much was wasted (5%) on root, though I have no idea why...