James M0TJC wrote: > 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 > > > here's a link that explain exactly how to do it...
http://goats.gnue.org/~dneighbo/notes/jfs.html -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Albert Charron, B.Sc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pages.videotron.com/aysande +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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