On September 7, 2004 09:21 am, Michael Olson wrote: > Tim Taubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i'm sure i can select it at the installtion process, can't i? ... i > > crashed my whole system with this damn ati stuff.. dpkg is not working > > anymore.. ext2 gave up :) i have to re-install the system.. by the > > way.. is ext3 at any better than ext2? > > Yes, by all means, use ext3 (or reiserfs) instead of ext2. These > other filesystems have journals, which means that you are much less > likely to lose data if the computer crashes or gets turned off > suddenly. Reiserfs is supposed to be a bit faster than ext3, IIRC.
Remember, though, ext3 is not really "better" than ext2 other than the presence of a journal. It _is_ ext2 with a journal, and you can even mount it as ext2 if you want. -- derek
