I'm back in Ubuntu, following my ninth failed attempt to install Debian 12. But I should say at the beginning that, like Rich, I've used ext4 for many years and have never had a problem. My issues with installing Debian 12 is that it won't boot because of a failure in setting up Grub. And the root cause of that is because I am too dumb to properly follow the instructions in the Debian installer. Xubuntu is on a Samsung M.2 drive of 1TB, and I'm trying to install Debian on a new Samsung M.2 drive of 2TB. I can easily tell which is which when they give me the Samsung product name, but while setting up Grub it asks 'Install grub to your primary drive?' Well, which drive is that? Both drives have a primary partition for / and a second logical partition for /home.
It probably doesn't matter. I've answered that question 'yes,' and 'no,' and either way the installed Debian appears in the Grub list, but it still won't boot. I'd rather have it on the new 2TB drive rather than the three-year-old 1TB drive, but that probably also doesn't matter. And speaking of primary partitions, the Debian installer set the boot flag for / on the new drive, but the / partition on the old drive (which unfailingly boots Ubuntu) has no boot flag, at least according to GParted. More stuff I don't understand. Michael Ewan <[email protected]> dijo: >I am glad you have not had any problems. I have had the opposite >experience with ext4 but never a problem with xfs, hence my suggestion. > >On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 1:25 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Michael Ewan wrote: >> >> > You will ultimately have problems with a corrupted file system >> > with ext4, almost guaranteed. Xfs is a much more robust file >> > system but if you do >> not >> > trust it, then try zfs or btrfs. >> >> Michael, >> >> I've used ext2, ext3, and ext4 with no issues on any of them. I'll >> stay with >> what's worked flawlessly with me since 1997. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rich >> >>
