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What is the best filesystem for a home server

Asked by Sidarth Dasari

I run a headless debian machine as a home server which stores videos and music with a variety of other stuff. What filesystem would be best suited for my drives. I have a 500 gig external and 250 gig internal drives. I access files from both a windows machine and a laptop running ubuntu.

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Best Zombie (initramfs) said : 		#1

Sidarth Dasari,

ext3 would be a good idea.

To access ext3 file systems from Windows, you will have to download a driver. Follow the link below:
http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

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Zombie.

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#2

Thanks Zombie, that solved my question.