Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom:
ext2. Never have used any other.
I seriously hope that this was a joke...
Maybe it was, but I never used anything but ext2 either, and that
is no joke. It has worked fine for many years. I often considered
upgrading to ext3, but so far
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On 01/19/08 07:35, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom:
ext2. Never have used any other.
I seriously hope that this was a joke...
Maybe it was, but I never used anything but ext2 either, and that
is no
On Jan 19, 2008 5:35 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am especially put off by the Wikipedia article on ext3. It gives
a rather long list of disadvantages. One of them (No
checksumming in journal) even sounds pretty frightening. The list
of advantages is very short, and they
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of
X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year,
unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is
nothing you can do but pull
On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 AM, Andrew Sackville-West
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
...
But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of
X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year,
unfortunately
Paul Johnson wrote:
Step 1: Get root privileges.
Step 2: Type tune2fs -j /dev/whatever
Step 3: Remount the filesystem ext3...
I did this, and indeed it was amazingly easy. On a partition of
about 24 G (well, this is an *old* disk!) a file /.journal of 128
M (indeed much less than 1%) was
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
Some steps may have been unnecessary, but it seems I have a
working ext3 system now. It is really easy. The real smoke test
will come, of course, when I pull the plug. Will do this now; if
you do not hear from me, the test will have failed. Thanks to all
who
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On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created
instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time.
but it did not).
If I may interject, creating the
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On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created
instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time.
but it did
Curt Howland wrote:
If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank
file.
This would explain why creating the journal does not seem to take
any time. But strings showed that there was a lot of stuff (at
least lots of filenames) in it. Perhaps the journal is *created*
as a blank
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:27:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank file.
So when does the journaling begin? At remount?
Perhaps on the next write once it is mounted as ext3? When the journal
To the other Mr. Johnson, sorry for the double, I botched the
reply/reply to list distinction there.
On Jan 19, 2008 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
Step 6: type tune2fs -j
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel shared this with us all:
--} So now I am more or less ready to take the plunge. But I would
--} still like some advice.
--}
--} 1. Is it true that ext3 always lets you recover smoothly after a
--} freeze and pull the plug, or after a power cut? Or are
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