[ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

[Tyler J. Wagner]

On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote:
> Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files?  (I found
> something about this when googling about EXT4).

Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will 
be faster for copying large files.

Regards,
Tyler

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