On Wednesday 21 Dec 2005 20:04, Albert Charron wrote: > James, you don't have regular power failure at your place don't you? > Here, I do. EXT2 partition don't recover very well from power failure. > When rebooting, the system takes a lot of time, forcing a fsck... with > EXT3, (which is EXT2 + journaling), the system restarts correctly and > quickly. It only reapply the last operations from the journal, and > that's it.
Ok, Thanks for the advice! I know by default that MDK9.2 (my first Linux) used ext3 (I think! - the darker red coloured one!)... a friend, who is a major league code wizard, suggested e2fs at the time, as ext3 did tend to be that little bit slower (K6/2-350, 64MB!) on my particular machine. Power reliability is excellent here, and on the rare occasion that an outage has occurred (even for a split second, due to a local lightning strike), then fsck has caused all kinds of problems deleting inodes and the like, and generally borking my KDE settings! So, the next burning question is, can it be converted to ext3 (in a similar way that Windows can be converted from FAT32 to NTFS?), or will it have to be a reinstall? Cheers, James -- Sent using Kmail on Mandriva Linux 2005 100% virus free, as it's nothing to do with Microsoft! #mount /dev/woman /mnt/bed!! ****************************************************** UK Amateur Radio Station, Callsign M0TJC Yaesu FT-7800, 2m/70cm Trio TS-700S, 2m All Mode Key KM80, 4m Kenwood TS-950SDX, HF Tel/Txt:+44 7784 013086 Skype o2985293 ******************************************************* 20:33:19 up 1:10, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.06, 0.03 ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
