HEllo I have a New RAID 300 GB drive in my Pc....

now Im on the partitioner and I need to choose a File Format (Ext3, XFS.. etc etc )

now the drive is gonna be used to storage. what File system would you recomend?

Any comments regarding partitioning would be greatly appreciated. I dont really know much about partitions and file Formats when it comes to linux !

( if it matters at all im Using Suse 10.0 )

thx !!!

depends what you are going to write to it if you want to be really technical and picky. some file systems cope better at extremes, i.e. massive files or millions of files.

essentially i would suggest just sticking with ext3, but as far as paritioning, again you've said nothign about what this drive is going to do, so quite how we can discuss partitioning for it i have no idea. i'd generally throw in the idea of using LVM though. if you are not sure abut parititioning then make one single LVM partition, then make a number of logical ext3 volumes inside it. that way you can easily add and remove "partitions" inside it, and grow and shrink at a moments notice incase you partition wrongly.

oh thx ! what a releaf !! hehehe I had already formatted the drive using ext3 and coppied about 80 GB!!

Im just wondering... I know about Windows related File Formats but ammm in what cases should I use XFS, Reiser, swap etc?...

Thx Again!

I have had success with XFS for large files (tv recordings) and ReiserFS for small files in my other partitions. JFS is also good at large files and is the best for deleting files.

And swap is for your swap (virtual memory) partition...

SuSE has a text file containing notes about changes from earlier versions. I think I remember that JFS isn't currently supported.

I read an article on the web comparing different filesystems. Ext3 and ReiserFS were recommended for home workstations where the computer is shut down.

XFS and JFS were recommended for large file systems on 24/7 servers that require a large throughput.

Here is a Linux Gazette article which compares Ext2, Ext3, Reiserfs, XFS and JFS.
http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz

Thank you all