[aklug] XFS (was: Re: Question regarding paritioning and drive space)

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, barsalou wrote:

> Quoting Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org>:
>
>> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Christopher Howard wrote:
>>
>>> A few weeks ago I was installing Debian i386 with the net-install disk
>>> (with an Etch disk, I think...) and I attempted to divide up all the driv=
> e
>>> space between four partitions (including one for swap). However, the
>>> partitioning failed, and kept failing on repeated attempts.
>>>
>>> However, then I re-did the partitioning so that there were four or five G=
> B
>>> of free-space at the end of the drive, and everything went smoothly from
>>> that point on.
>>>
>>> I was planning to write a Debian tutorial for one of my classes. I was
>>> curious if I needed to tell the end users to leave some free space at the
>>> end of the drive, and if so, how much they would need to leave.
>>
>> I have never not been able to use the entire drive since, oh, 1995. I wou=
> ld
>> have to think that the utility that Debian is using is borked on your
>> particular hardware. If you can partition directly with fdisk (from
>> util-linux) or parted you wouldn't have that issue. I'd be surprised if
>> their installer wouldn't allow you to do that.
>>
>> BTW, if it's an option I'd highly encourage you to use only two partitions=
> ,
>> one for /boot, and one for an LVM PV. Being able to slice and grow LVs
>> rather than hard-set partitions makes life immensely more pleasant.
>>
>
> A key thing to note here is that if you use something other than XFS =20
> for your filesystem, you may have to unmount the filesystem before you =20
> can grow it.
>
> I seem to remember there might be a tool that works with EXT3, however.
>
> XFS is a great filesystem, and I use it when I can.
>
> Mike B.
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Hmm... I was looking at XFS on wikipedia, and it sounds kind of cool.
But why do you prefer it?

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Christopher Howard
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