What file system on USB disk on linux server?

rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

What file system do you recommend to use on USB Disk(for security, safe data) i can believe that i won´t loose my data? And what file system on disk conataining linux installation?
I heard that XFS is great but data can be lost.

vad3r · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:15 am Post subject:

None of the filesystems in the kernel is 100 % safe. You should consider a journaling fs like etx3/4, reiserfs or XFS. This reduces the chances to lose data. ext4 looks pretty good but isn't absolutely stable in my opinion and i won't use it in production. Hope this helps
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MostAwesomeDude · Guru Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 373

USB disks are wear-levelers nowadays, so don't worry about the filesystem, just use ext3 or jfs or something else with a journal.
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