As against the philosophy it may seem go for NTFS, a usb disk need portability end of story.
On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On Tue 04 Oct 2011 05:48:51 PM IST, Arjun Suresh Raji wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently bought Seagate GoFlex FreeAgent Desk 2TB 3.5inch [ :( ] > > hard-disk. USB 2.0 [:( ]. > > > > I would like to know the best file system to which should I really > > format my drive to. I usually use ext2 for my pen drives. Is there any > > added advantage using btrfs over ext4. My use is to store books of > > size (usually <20 MB ). Seperate partition for movies and tvseries ( > > 300MB < avg-size < 4GB) and tutorials (size <100MB) and lecture videos > > (size <350MB) > > > > Can anyone please enlighten me on the subject and how to tweak the > > tuning parameters of the filesystem to get the maximum space, life for > > my hard disk? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > PS: Values in the bracket is the usual range of a *single* file size. > > > > -- > > Arjun S R > > http://about.me/arjunsr > > > > I would recommend against any FS which works only in Linux if you might > have situations when you need the data on other OS. > If that's not the case, you should go for ext4, or jfs. Both have > journaling. And since the interface is usb, which uses lot of cpu while > data transfer, jfs is a perfect fit here. jfs has known to have lower > cpu footprint as compared to others. Also, check out xfs. > > -- > Nilesh Govindarajan > http://nileshgr.com > > -- > Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: > http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Dhananjay Deepak Sathe | +919764871950 [email protected],[email protected],[email protected],<[email protected]> Blog : http://dsathe.blogspot.com 3rd Year Undergraduate, BE(Hons) Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS Pilani Goa Campus. -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
