formatting a disk for a home NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2015-04-14 10:28 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
Always do that!
In this case you have to anyhow since the RPi is incapable of booting from
anything but the SD-card.

>
> 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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