Best filesystem for lubuntu on old hard drive.

Zssfssz · 11-22-2011, 07:58 PM

I have a rather old hard drive that I ripped out of my old computer. I am going to install lubuntu on it. What filesystem will put the least ammout of pressure on it? Space is not a problem on it. The drive is just really old and I don't want to work it too hard. I have a creepaly high amount of nostalgia with it. I don't want it to be any of the EXT filesystems because I want to try a new one. I'm a developer that's why!

snowday · 11-23-2011, 12:51 PM

ext4 is the default and also my recommendation.

Old drives are exponentially more likely to fail and replacement HDD's are ridiculously cheap these days (Black Friday's coming up!)

Maybe this would be a fun opportunity to experiment with RAID?

TobiSGD · 11-23-2011, 01:05 PM

Any other newer filesystems that are not part of the ext-family are also journaled file-systems, so I doubt that any of them will put less "pressure" on the drive. Usually the amount of drive accesses is determined by the workload, not the file-system I would think.

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I don't want it to be any of the EXT filesystems because I want to try a new one. I'm a developer that's why!

I don't see how being a developer affects the choice of a file-system for your system, even if you develop file-systems. Do you think that a developer is using the file-system of his system partition for testing?

Zssfssz · 11-23-2011, 10:19 PM

I dont know how it makes a difference but I am rather obsessed (as in interested) in filesystems. Also I think it would hold out on me for two reasons: it may be old but it was front-of-the-line, not run-of-the-mill CRAY-would-use-it when I bought it (7gibi? It has ~10005 megs on it). Pretty good for 1998!
I also read a (coughthecough) creepy article on the RieserFS (creator) and want to wait a few days to use that filesystem.
So Ext4? Ill take it!
Oh by new I mean 'I've used it before'

snowday · 11-24-2011, 08:56 AM

To put it in perspective you can buy an 8gb thumb drive for less than $5 or a 1 TB HDD for less than $100 at tomorrow's Black Friday sales.

If your data is valuable to you, then don't rely on a 1998 hard drive for storage/backup.