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best FS for notebooks?

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Jazz
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best FS for notebooks?

#1 Post by Jazz »

I use an iBook G4. Which file system would help my battery last its longest?
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#2 Post by anystupidassname »

It doesn't look like any pariticular file system is going to make much of a difference.
You'd see a much better improvement by switching to a solid state HDD.

You can, however, make some changes with "hdparm" (for example set spin-down timeouts) and "Mobile Update Daemon" to improve power consumption.

As far as your original question, a file system with wandering logs like reiser4 perhaps and "notail" enabled would be your best bet.

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#3 Post by BLASTER_ »

I've used reiserfs3 for my G3 ibook since it became stable for PPC, and never had a problem in 3+ years with it.

One thing however is Darwin and OSX can read ext2, (ext3 is just ext2 with a journal applied and a read only mount wouldn't cause a problem reading an ext3 drive.)

So if you did ext3 and HFS+ you could read (write?) on any drive in a dual boot configuration. If I had to redo mine, I'd use ext3.

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