On Thursday 09 May 2002 4:32 pm, Michael Hothorn wrote: > Has anyone a thinkpad (or any other laptop) running a journaling > filesystem (reiserfs, xfs, ext3)? Is it safe (in the kernel > config it's still mentioned as EXPERIMENTAL) and running stable?
I'm not on a laptop but I've been running ext3 very successfully for about 7 months. It's based on the tried-and-tested ext2 so it's pretty robust. ext3 is also forwards and backawards compatible with ext2, so if there are any problems you can mount an ext3 partition as ext2. > And: How to switch from ext2 to journaling? I have recent mondo/mindi just run: tune2fs -j /dev/hdaN where N is the partition number Load /etc/fstab into a text editor, and change the 'ext2' to read 'ext3'. Reboot, check it's now mounted as ext3, and you're done :) > backups of the machine. The switch to ext3 is non-destructive. Of course you should be doing backups daily anyway ;) (hrm, that's rich from somebody who hasn't backed up for ages :(). > But what about booting from it with LILO? As long as ext3 is compiled into the kernel, you don't need to do any more. If ext3 is compiled as a module you may need to mess around with initrd stuff. I compile ext3 into the kernel because it's easier, IMHO :) > PS This is a laptop-question; I would like to hear something about > performance on IDE disks as well. Hear what exactly? ;) -- Cheers, Chris Howells -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://edu.kde.org, http://usability.kde.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
