On Tue, 19 May 2009, Paul M wrote:

> 2009/5/19 Robert P. J. Day <rpj...@crashcourse.ca>:

> > p.s.  is it safe to format the second partition as ext3?  or
> > should i be using ext2 instead?
>
> it'll *work* but the extra writes will wear out your card much
> faster so best avoided.

  i suspected as much, so it's nice to have that clarified.  but is it
possible that ext3 journalling is causing some of those I/O errors you
can see in my posted first-time boot output?

  i can do the whole thing again with ext2 just to see if there's a
difference but i'd be surprised if there was.

rday
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