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Which Filesystem for second drive?

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:11 am
by Nurbit
Hi guys

I'm going to install Amahi onto a 75gb WD Raptor drive but will be using a 2tb drive for my music and video storage.
My question is this....

Do I format the 2tb drive as NTFS or EXT4?

If I go with NTFS, I can then pull the drive out and read it in a windows machine if something goes wrong. Would this cause any issues with Amahi / Fedora mounting the drive and accessing it? Is there anything else I need to be aware of?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Which Filesystem for second drive?

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:39 am
by moredruid
NTFS file permissions do not work under linux.

besides that there's nothing holding you back, NTFS read/write in linux is quite stable of late.

Personally I'd choose ext3 but hey... (you can still do this and pop in a live linux CD in another box to salvage your stuff).

Why Microsoft with all their money only has support for FAT(32), NTFS and ISO 9660/UDF (CD/DVD) is beyond me.

Re: Which Filesystem for second drive?

Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:29 am
by cale250
I would warn, however, that writing large files to NTFS (bigger than one GB from my experience) may create some strange journaling corruption that requires a long disk check sometimes. But otherwise it is quite stable.

Re: Which Filesystem for second drive?

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:43 am
by Nurbit
Thanks for the replies guys.

I've decided to drop NTFS.

My only question now is...... ext3 or ext4?

Is there really an difference and would one be better than the other?
I've also read about xfs..... is that any good? Would it be any better than the others?

Sorry to ask so many questions but while I have been playing with linux for some time now, I know nothing about the different filesystems.

Thanks

Re: Which Filesystem for second drive?

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:12 am
by moredruid