- #NTFS VS EXT4 INSTALL#
- #NTFS VS EXT4 DRIVERS#
- #NTFS VS EXT4 SOFTWARE#
- #NTFS VS EXT4 PC#
- #NTFS VS EXT4 FREE#
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Sda1 being your partition in question (replace by your actual value).ĭisk /dev/md127p1: 2000.3 GB, 2000260431872 bytesĢ heads, 4 sectors/track, 488344832 cylinders a 15% waste (300 GB from a 2000 GB) sounds really crazy anyway. Bigger i-nodes (256 byte sized ones) takes up more than old fashion 128 byte sized i-nodes.īut anyhow. Too much i-nodes: On a multiterrabyte drives, the number of created i-nodes tends to be overshot for a typical usage pattern for such big storage (i.e a multi-megabyte files rather than bytes/kilobytes-size files). 5% is reserved for root only accessible area. The "formatting" program for ext partitions has defaults which wastes a little space on a created ext4 partition, speficically for: Very negligible fraction of percent, but better, not worse. Well, ext2 has no journals, and the one I made used 128-byte i-nodes (nowadays 256-byte i-nodes are standard) and had 0% space reserved for root user files, but actually the efficieny was even a fraction of percent _better_ than that of ntfs. I have compared (among others) etx2 and ntfs. FAT32 will works as well.I have done tests regarding filesystems efficiency a few years back.
#NTFS VS EXT4 PC#
If there is a need of transferring the file to another PC which only has Windows on it, I always copies the file into my external HDD which is NTFS.
#NTFS VS EXT4 INSTALL#
But I think the point is for openSUSE install on internal HDD one should always format the partition as ext3/ext4.
#NTFS VS EXT4 SOFTWARE#
There could be such software that allows Win to read "true" Ext4, but I'm not aware of it as I don't care or deal with WindowsYes, what you said is true.
#NTFS VS EXT4 DRIVERS#
There are also drivers for XFS on Windows but it's the same thing with Ext2/3/4, you need to install additional software (the drivers) The Ext3 drivers provided by above software will not be able to manage a "true" Ext4 FS with extents turned on. To my knowledge, if the uses "real" Ext4 (ie, not Ext4 in Ext3 compatibility mode without extents), there's currently no Windows software that will be able to read it. The point is that if he takes this disk to a friend and it's in Ext4, if his friend uses Windows (most likely), he'll first has to hunt down additional software before his friend can read the disk, which isn't really very convenient, unless he always carries with him the software and each time installs it on friend's PCs which still is an ugly solution. There could be such software that allows Win to read "true" Ext4, but I'm not aware of it as I don't care or deal with Windows
#NTFS VS EXT4 FREE#
I'm not trying to promote any particular software here, but just to point out that there are a few free (as in beers) software will allow you to read ext2/ext3 partition on windows.Įxt2 IFS For WindowsThat wasn't really the point. IMHO to make a good choice, you need to sort your future plans. However if you make the file system EXT3 or EXT4, and install Windoze on this PC, you will not be able to access the EXT3 or EXT4 from Windoze (at least not without hunting down, and possibly paying for and installing some custom software to give Windoze the access capability - and I have no idea about such software). But since you don't have Windoze you can't do that, and hence NTFS will stay dirty, and eventually you may not be able to access it. The risk (IMHO) of keeping NTFS is the NTFS partition could become "dirty" and the only way to deal with that is to boot to Windoze. Also it would be easier for the moment to create the new partition from MSXP and move the files to it also from within XP.If you never plan to put Windoze on this PC, then I would recommend changing it away from NTFS.
There is of course a chance that Win 7 (now with snappy windows!! yaheyy! nobody thought of that before did they?) might turn out to be a good OS and I might want this stuff stored NTFS.
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