how to format a drive

[Carsten Aulbert]

OOzy Pal wrote:
> On 3/9/07, Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> wrote:

> I mean what is the diff btw ext3, ex2, xfs, and reiserfs? Is Kunbuntu
> ext3 or ex2, etc?

Ah, now I get it. Kubuntu works with either of these (and probably many
more), but there are subtle differences between those:

I would advice you to use ext3 for a laptop or anything where you need a
very good stability but not the extreme performance. If you had a
system, running behind a UPS and failsafe stuff, I would recommend XFS
or reiserfs because of their better performance.

I had bad luck with both XFS and reiserfs after crashes, and use it only
in environments where I have better hardware or where I need it, e.g. my
PVR needs faster fielssytem than ext3 to delete large files.

YMMV, but try ext3 for the time being, its extremely robust!

C