[SLUG] Multiple Disk Strategy

[Stephen]

Hi all,

Please can I call on your greater collective experience...

I currently have 2 hard drives - one 120gb ntfs in 2 partitions inc 
windows; the other is 60gb running linux partitioned as per the fedora 
default.

Now, 100gb of ntfs is effectively wasted as I cannot write to it from 
linux, therefore I am intending on nuking it to a nice linux writable 
format.

I have 2 questions:

1) What filesystem would you recommend for a partition that is intended 
for data only - my system uses ext3, but is that overkill given the 
whole journalling thing? Would I be better using a lighterweight 
filesystem ... or am I missing the point?

2) What would be the best strategy for using the space on a disk 
separate from the main system? I mean, I imagine that I should just move 
the entire /home directory to the 2nd disk... but will that break things 
if I make /home a symbolic link to the other filesystem... or can I 
mount the 2nd disk on /home???? Or am I doing the windows solution? - 
what would a linux user do? I imagine that moving the user data to a 
separate disk would increase overall performance... or would it?

Hope you can see why am a little uncertain?!

Thanks in advance!

Steve