[dba-Tech] Which disk format to choose for Linux?

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Tina:

By default Linux uses EXT+ format (ext2, ext3, or ext4) but they are virtually interchangeable. That said Linux can read and write to most standard disk formats, NTFS, FAT32 and HFS+. There are also a number of speciality formats used in Linux. A couple of the most well known are; BTRFS (butter FS) builds a format like B-tree database, for very easy and fast data management and then there is the ultimate drive format, ZFS which allows any number of drives and computers to connect into a single drive and has virtually no size limit (256 zetabytes)...this format is used extensively in large Cloud, archive and backup sites...also the format is noted for its almost perfect record against any data loss.

HTH

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:33:08 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Which disk format to choose for Linux?

I don't know, but I'll be watching for the answer because I will be 
doing something very similar in the not-too-distant future.
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 08/20/15 11:46 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I'm re-purposing an old HP Intellistation and dedicating it to Ubuntu
> Linux. To prepare for the transformation, I'm running MiniTool Partition
> Wizard. The choices it offers are NTFS (irrelevant), Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4.
> Does it matter to Ubuntu which I select? Or will it just see the drive as a
> Linux drive in whatever format, and then subdivide it as it thinks best?
>

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