From: diolu.remove_this_part@bigfoot.com   
      
   Le 14/11/12, Aragorn a écrit :   
   > 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.   
      
   Why would you switch the journal off? This can be important if the   
   drive has not been cleanly unmounted (this is the case if you   
   accidentally unplug the drive, without having unmounting it). The   
   journal is very sufficient.   
      
   vfat has the great problem of having 4GB maximum file size, that can   
   matter if you store moovies or big files for whatever reason.   
      
   From my experience ntfs-3g is very good and it would probably be as   
   fast as any other filesystem because the bottleneck is the physical   
   reading capability of your hard drive not the time to decode   
   information from the filesystem. But then you cannot use linux feature   
   (linux permission, symbolic links, special files, etc...).   
      
   Olive   
      
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