Some of my Kubuntu-Hoary tweaks

[Jose Gomez-Dans]

On 4/15/05, Abdullah Ramazanoglu <ar018 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [*] BTW I wonder why a single-CD distro like Kubuntu should include support
> for any FS under the Sun. I can understand ext3, reiserfs, fat32, and
> ntfs. But what good is it to have jfs, xfs, etc marginally used FS
> supports on the space starvant CD? It's even concievable to let either
> ext3 or reiser go (the one which has less user base). Then, root FS will
> have to be either ext3 or reiser, depending on which FS is included in the
> CD. If the user has already existing partitions with other FS (minority
> case), then he can always post-install the support for it. However, this
> is a far future issue for now, given there are even less relevant packages
> on the CD for casual desktop usage, and given the Hoary CD is not even
> filled up to 700M.

I personally tend to use xfs to store my work files (which go into the
1Gb mark fairly often). XFS is fairly good with large files. At any
rate, there's little point in trimming those things: they are small
fry compared to other stuff.