[PLUG] Forced fsck

[Michael M.]

John Jason Jordan wrote:
>  
>
> In fact, I'm toying with the idea of upgrading the 4200 rpm 60 GB hard
> disk in this laptop to something faster. It really slows things down a
> lot. Program launch times are especially slow, an big annoyance on a
> laptop. So if there is a better filesystem to use than ext3, now is the
> time to learn about it.
>   

Not long ago, Aaron posted a link to an article at Debian Administration 
that compared some file systems:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/388

He also posted a link to a discussion of the article at LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/181343/

I think you'd probably find both are helpful and informative.

-- 
Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream." --S. Jackson