[PLUG] It's Here!!

[Jason Van Cleve]

Quoth Kurt Sussman, on Mon, 9 May 2005 13:15:44 -0700:

> I use ext2 for the boot partition and reiserfs for everything else.
> I've been doing this for over 6 years and I've had zero problems.
> Yeah, ext3 has more recovery modes, but most of the recovery CDs can
> handle reiserfs and I haven't needed them (recovery CDs) for
> filesystem problems, so why mess with success?

One reason is, if I'm not mistaken, ext3 is a "journaling" file system,
whereas ext2 is not.  So there's less chance of corruption, and if you
should ever crash, ext3 will not have to scan your partition when you
reboot.

> I have an old Compaq notebook with a 6G drive, and it runs XP Pro just
> fine. So I might just reserve 7G for Windog and make one partition
> FAT32 so it can be used from both Linux and XP.

That'd be my way.  I'd allocate a little less for the main Win' part',
though, just enough for the core OS and maybe a few app's.  Then make
that FAT part' bigger, and install Windose app's on it as needed.  This
way, if you never use much Win' software, you won't have much wasted
space that you can't access from Linux.

--Jason Van Cleve

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