[zonker66]

So got hold of kanotix, relly nice. Now I need to move all my data from the cursed ntfs drives to something linux will also be able to write to. But how should i partition the drives?
I read that for big files like video (700-1200mb) xfs was better than reiserfs or ext3, but dont know if this is true.
I have a 250 gb drive that need to hold mp3 files (thats a lot of small files), another 250 gb needs to hold big videofiles, -what partition system should be used on these disks?

-and when i format them, how do i make them accesible to all users?

thanks, zonker

[antidrugue]

Originally Posted by zonker66

I have a 250 gb drive that need to hold mp3 files (thats a lot of small files),

Still, mp3 (2-5 mb) are not considered small files, so ReiserFS will not be that efficient with them (it likes < 1000k files).

Originally Posted by zonker66

another 250 gb needs to hold big videofiles, -what partition system should be used on these disks?

I hear XFS is very good for that. But personaly I prefer the good old EXT3, which is an all-around performer, as well as being very reliable and flexible.

Some documentation :
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388
http://fsbench.netnation.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem

Originally Posted by zonker66

-and when i format them, how do i make them accesible to all users?

A simple entry in /etc/fstab should do the trick.

[zonker66]

ok, thanks, i formatted two 250gb with xfs and one with ext3, and moved the data, all went fine.
Now i would like that my user profile has read/write acess to the disks when i log in, not only as root , but how do i do that?
Can i create a group that includes me and assignn read/write access to that group, or do i have to change the owner from root to me? or is there another preferable way to do that?

[antidrugue]

Originally Posted by zonker66

Now i would like that my user profile has read/write acess to the disks when i log in, not only as root , but how do i do that?

What is the content of /etc/fstab?

This disk is physically in your computer? (if so, the "defaults" mount options should give your user access).

Make sure the permissions on the drive are OK :

man chmod

Make sure the drive is mounted OK :

man mount

and

man fstab

[zonker66]

thanks for the instant reply! im still formatting and moving data (i have 9 hds to manage). The hds are all in the machine, i just persumed that only root had write acess to anything except home folder. Ill use the man pages and only return if i get totally lost,
thx again