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Originally posted by MikeyCarter
I bought a USB 3.5 enclosure and put a 200 Gig drive in it. When I was first formatting it I found that the only FS that worked (ie didn't corrupt the entire FS on large transfers) was XFS.
I mostly found I needed to use rsync --bw_limit to transfer with out killing something.
I'm now in a stage where I was playing mp3's from it and the drive hiccuped on a write. Now the entire XFS seems to be unrecoverable. (I can't mount, xfs_repair... everthing fails)
So what's the best FS to use on these things? I get the feeling I overload the USB when doing large transfers which cause the filesystems to get corrupted. But I'm only guessing.
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Maybe the chipset the enclosure has is not fully supported. As basileus mentioned if the enclosure works correctly, the choice of
the filesystem has nothing to do with it.
If you use this disk only to transport large files (e.g downloaded movie files) then XFS is a good choice.It is much quicker than
the others when dealing with large files.
ext3 on the other hand is recognised on pretty much every linux (or bsd or solaris or whatever) box you will put it.
Since this is a 200gb disk, i recommend a small vfat (fat32) partition in case you go to a friend who has only windows and the
rest of the disk ext3 for the reason i mentioned above.
If you will only use this disk on your box then i suggest XFS.
P.S A word of caution. Don't trust a USB hard disk for valuable data.