[Question] about format/add another hdd/ssd

[nenoro]

hello

So i was wondering when you decide to format a disk and add to fstab or not what is the type you use for the disk ?

If you use it for server, website do you select Filesystem ?
If for games do you select filesystem or home ?

forgot to mention it is when you use gpt instead dos because your mobo is uefi.

Since i don't find an answer from gentoo wiki or in general so i prefer to ask.

thanks in advance =)

[fturco]

I'm a desktop computer user and:

• I always use btrfs for my Linux filesystems because I need to take snapshots and detect data corruption
• I use GPT partition tables even if my system uses BIOS

[Makersmarx]

I'm also a desktop user:

I use ext4 for my additional storage
I use GPT partition tables

[Jaglover]

For additional drives I do not use partitioning, I lay the filesystem directly to the block device. For older SSD drives it is F2FS, for new drives XFS. I think nenoro could benefit from learning a bit about block devices, partitions and filesystems and also mounting and fstab (both have man pages to start with).

[nenoro]

well for my SSDs i started to format on XFS since someone told me it's benefit for ssd.

[NeddySeagoon]

I like LVM and lots of logical volumes.
It gives me snapshots if I want but more importantly, I can add unallocated space to any logical volume.
Moving space around in harder but possible.

As i don't run UPS's, XFS, JFS and so on that can go a long time between syncs are not for me.
I use ext4 everywhere but with different block sizes for different filesystems and -O ^has_journal for anything that's expendable, like distfiles or the portage repo.
The repo is on a filesystem with a 1kB block size to avoid all the wasted space at the end of a file.

On average, every file wastes half a block. I would rather waste 512B that 2kB. It was important at one time. Less so now with the size of HDD.