On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:27:11PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:47:54PM -0500, dman wrote:
| > On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:46:41PM +0000, Simon Hepburn wrote:
| > | On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
| > |
| > | > I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway.
| > |
| > | Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch ;-)
| >
| > :-). I was thinking that a journaled fs would be a really good idea,
| > but I don't want to change it just hours before I leave in case there
| > is some issue with it. ("some issue" mainly being PEBKAC
| > misconfiguration somewhere, but if I'm not around to fix it ...)
|
| ext3 is probably a good idea if you aren't going to be around in case
| there is a power outage or someone trips over the power cord. I use
| etx3 on all my boxes running 2.4.17 and haven't (yet) experienced any
| problems (now I wait for all the replies saying "ext3 is B0rken on
| 2.4.17!!1!" :)
I've got 2.4.17 on all my systems. (2.4.18 is out now, but not
packaged last I checked) Are there any tricks or gotchas to setting
it up? Here's what I know (I did include support in the kernel) :
o /etc/fstab -- s/ext2/ext3/
o make the journal file (using 'tunefs'?)
The only thing I'm concerned about is trying to set up a new feature,
but not setting it up correctly and not being around to fix the setup.
TIA,
-D
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