Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: New user, some simple questions

[Matthew Flaschen]

Daryl Styrk wrote:
> 
> It was ext3.  Currently undergoing dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb1 . Not
> that I gave up on the project. I figured might as well encrypt the drive
> with the contents /home if it's going to be sitting around unattended.

Reasonable choice.  I recommend cryptsetup(-)luks. You should be aware,
though, that that will slow down rdiff-backup, which is already slow
(through no fault of its own) due to the rdiffs.

> Moving a bit off-topic, I was planning on formatting back to ext3.  Or
> would ext2 be a better choice?

I would recommend ext3 or ext4 (though I haven't used the latter yet).

Matt Flaschen