File Systems

[Nils Kassube]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I have loaded Jaunty Beta twice, and have done a full update on
> this computers Jaunty. All is fine, but I was stopped 2 times because
> the loader was going to use the ext2 file system, but I wanted the
> ext3 file system and found that and both are using it.

You could change an ext2 system to ext3 with a simple command 
(tune2fs -j), so ext2 would have been no real problem.

>     But I noted there is now a ext4 file system. Does anyone know why
> I should use ext4 :-)

I could only tell you why you should NOT use ext4. It is still 
experimental and some people lost some files.
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781>


Nils