From: stryder@telenet.be.invalid   
      
   On Wednesday 14 November 2012 01:17, TJ conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   > On 11/13/2012 04:09 PM, Adam wrote:   
   >>   
   >> In short, I'd suggest making it into several partitions based on your   
   >> particular needs, and there's nothing wrong with leaving some of it   
   >> unpartitioned for now.  Allow a day or more for full r/w testing of   
   >> all the partitions, although of course you can use your computer for   
   >> anything else during that.  I'd recommend a thorough r/w test at the   
   >> start, before you have any important data on it and while it's still   
   >> easy to return or exchange should there be any problems.   
   >>   
   > Most of the stuff I'll be putting on this drive isn't OS-specific -   
   > photos, videos, PDFs, etc. Stuff that I access very infrequently and   
   > don't need cluttering up my main hard drive, but stuff I want to find   
   > easily when I do want it. And since the OS I use 95+% of the time is   
   > Linux, keeping Windows compatibility is probably not all that   
   > important, now that I think of it.   
      
   If you can do without the Windows compatibility, then I would suggest   
   going with ext4, with the journaling switched off - this is a mount-time   
   option - *and* to put that ext4 filesystem on a logical volume.  That   
   way you can keep some empty space on the device for other purposes, and   
   yet retain the option of enlarging the existing ext4 filesystem if need   
   be.   
      
   If on the other hand you do need Windows compatibility, then I would   
   suggest putting a good old vfat (FAT32) partition on it, because NTFS is   
   an ugly mess [*] and prone to proprietary revisions which may either way   
   cause compatibility problems, both in GNU/Linux and in Microsoft   
   Windows.  ntfs-3g is good, but it runs in userspace - only the FUSE   
   component runs inside the kernel for direct access to the raw device -   
   while vfat runs in the kernel, so its access will be somewhat faster.   
      
      
   [*] I'm not talking of the way the Linux kernel or FUSE handle NTFS,   
       but of the NTFS filesystem itself, which is as ugly as the operating   
       system it was designed for, and as the evil minds of the people   
       behind it.   
      
   --   
   = Aragorn =   
   (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)   
      
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