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[lyew]

Hi,

I just got my ISP to install an additional HDD onto my dedicated server.

I tried to format and mount my HDD through WHM and it asked me to choose among three file systems to format the new HDD with:

ext2/ext3/Reiserfs

Does anyone know of a good website that talks about (and compares) these Linux filesystems?

What is the best filesystem to use if I'm using the new HDD primarily for backup?

[Morphix]

Without getting into too many details, I'd recommand going with ext3.

[drhonk]

Just use the same file format as your main HD. If the existing one use ext3 .. then use ext3 as well for your new HD.

[Brightblade]

also using one you weren't before is risky because chances are you didn't compile support for it into the kernel so you'd have to patch the kernel which is lots of fun =)

chances are i'm putting money the one your not using is Reiserfs.

http://www.gurulabs.com/ext3-reiserfs.html

[lyew]

Thanks, for all your advice guys. I've gone with ext3.

After formatting, WHM has mounted it as /home2

The point in having the second HDD was to use for backup. So when I went to the backup options in WHM, it says that I'll have to mount the backup drive as dir/nfs/coda. What is that and how do I go about mounting it as such?

[richmon]

an any one HELP me?? PLEASE

I need advise for my 2x120GB Patitions

as I am a newbie need someone to be my buddy


hdd1 harddisk is 120GB where is it
76M??
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Current Disk Usage
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 ext3 7.7G 141M 7.2G 2% /
/dev/hda1 ext3 76M 13M 60M 18% /boot
/dev/hda8 ext3 84G 2.1G 78G 3% /home
none tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7 ext3 1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp
/dev/hda5 ext3 7.7G 106M 7.2G 2% /var
/dev/hda6 ext3 7.7G 1.3G 6.1G 18% /usr
/dev/hdd1 ext2 76M 28K 72M 1% /home2