Best Filesystems?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:12:27AM -0400, Steve wrote:
> I have a question about filesystem types. I've got an 80GB drive that
> I'm planning to reformat and install Ubuntu. I plan to create 3
> partitions:
> 
> 9.0 GB - For the OS and system files.
> 512 MB - SWAP (equal to amount of RAM)
> 70 GB - For user data files which will include many MP3s, OGGs and a
> few DVD rips (ie. mostly single large files > 1MB each)
> 
> My question is which filesystems would be optimal? I'm used to ext3,
> but would ReiserFS be better for the OS/system files? Is ext3 best for
> the large data files or ext2 or ReiserFS? If I occasionally boot from
> a liveCD I'd need to be able to have full access (R/W) to files on the
> 70GB partition.
> 
> Also, I will be using VMware 5.0 with windowsxp as Guest OS. Does
> anyone know if windows in VMware needs to be installed on a FAT/NTFS
> partition? As it is all virtual, I am assuming it can be installed on
> a linux filesystem.
> 
> Thanks for any info and suggestions.

Well I use ext3 because it's the only filesystem that heasn't corrupted
and eaten a bunch of files on me so far.

Reiserfs 3.6 and XFS are not in my good book anymore.

Lennart Sorensen
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