Hi all,
I hope this should be an easy question to answer. What file system should I use for formatting a 1TB external hard drive for use with linuxMCE? I want to fill it with blu-ray sized movies.
I'm not sure if NTFS or FAT32 will work or does Kubuntu use it's own format?
Then how do I add or delete drives from LinuxMCE?
Thanks
filesystem: ext3.
to add drives: simply plug it. lmce will recognize it and when asked, use lmce structure.
to delete: webadmin, show device tree, find the drive and remove it.
format the drive with xfs
if its is going to hold your media
Thanks
Mandingo
XFS is faster, but ext3, slower is more secure. So, depending of which kind of media shall be stored on this drive, you can choose xfs or ext3.
See http://buffalo.nas-central.org/index.php/Using_XFS_instead_of_ext3_%28network_performance_boost%29 and after that, you can decide which filesystem you will have the drive formated.