File System on external hard drive

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 20:20:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:42 AM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can I ask some important but likely to be controversial question ? I have
> one external hard drive which I will be
> using for Ubuntu ( mostly ) but sometimes for windows.
>
> Which filesystem is the most desirable and recommended. There seems to be
> luxury of plenty. EXT3, EXT4, ZFS etc ?
>
> Can someone give academically honest answer ?

There was a thorough discussion of this topic on ./  the other day
(http://slashdot.org).  Many, many different opinions, but also some
useful setups, depending on what you need to use the external for.

Chros




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