formatting a disk for a home NAS

[Amos Shapira]

If all you want is for this server to be there and not have to worry about
it then I'd recommend ext4.

Put the data and the OS on separate disks if you can.

Many years ago (over ten years), I used ReiserFS for my desktop. It worked
great and didn't have the limitations of the other fs's of the time
(ext2/ext3).
Until one day I tried to shrink it to make room for another distro. BIG
mistake. The tools weren't mature and I lost all my data.

*MY* take-away from this - stick to mainstream if you want things to "just
work", and without knowing more about your context I'd expect 99% that ext4
will do just fine for the job.

Good luck,

--Amos

On 14 April 2015 at 17:17, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> Of course you're going to reformat, after all the technicalities of
> the local fs will be hidden from the clients by nfs/smb/(web)dav.
>
> As far as which FS goes, ext4 is a safe bet, it seems the big server
> players are recently opting for XFS.
>
> And if you feel adventurous and want the power of ZFS that is also an
> option these days or if you want something similar btrfs is also
> pretty good these days (my phone uses it for it's main storage and I
> have no complaints).
>
> HTH,
> Eliyahu - אליהו
>
> 2015-04-14 6:44 GMT+03:00 Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com>:
> > I'm setting up a home NAS - Raspberry PI2, Raspbian, Samba, external
> > disk. It's meant to serve files to a mixed network - Linux, Windows and
> > Android devices. The new disk comes formatted as NTFS. My "gut" tells
> > me to re-format as EXT4 - any comments or suggestions?
> >
> > Additional info: The files will be a mix of music, video and office
> > files. I will also be backing up at least one of the Linux boxes on
> > this server, so there will also be a fair number of small files -
> > e-mail, config files, etc. In the past I used to prefer ReiserFS, but
> > over the years, I've gradually moved to EXT4 for new disks.
> >
> > --
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