File Systems

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat Mar 28 23:30:15 UTC 2009


On 03/28/2009 04:18 PM, Ugly Me wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: File Systems
> 
> 
>> On 03/28/2009 06:17 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> > 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
>> >
>>
>> Plus there are grub issues, etc:
> 
> Like in the garden?
> I'm still trying to figure out the differences between all these file
> systems.
> Currently I have FAT and NTFS partitions on my Win2K system.
> I have yet to install Linux except experimentally but I'm preparing for it.
> 
> 
> 

These will help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Glossary
https://help.ubuntu.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/index.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/switching/index.html






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