091108 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sat, 2009-11-07 at 12:05 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> is Ext2 the best fs for this machine ? Might Ext3 or Ext4 be better ? >> -- I use Reiserfs on my desktop machines. > the journal will wear out an SSD in short order, > so ext2 is indeed the better file system > All conventional filesystems are built to suit rotating disk media. > SSDs are very different, esp the cheap nasty controllers in netbooks.
Sensible advice, no doubt, for those using SSDs in their netbooks, but as I said in my OP, my ASUS 1005HA has a 160 GB hard disk (HDD), whence the letter 'H' in its name. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
