On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 13:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ive converted my debian from ext2 to ext3 .. no problems. > > > > Do I need to do the same to my swap partition, is there any advantage > > ?? > > > > Dave > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I'm thinking not. > > ext3 is a journaling system for the purpose of data integrity and > reliability in the event of a disk failure or some interruption of > service. > SWAP is the most temporary partition you can possibly have. /tmp would be > the next most temporary partition. > In general, I believe that the use of journaling file systems is a > degredation of performance compared to a non-journaled system. But I > could be very wrong in some cases. I'm not really sure.... > But regarding swap, I don't think it will do anything useful for you...
Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't do it!! -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
