[vox-tech] Two Install Questions
I've been running Kubuntu Hardy on my laptop and desktop. I've frozen myself at KDE 3.5. But some updates ruined Kubuntu on my laptop and I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on the laptop. Because I like it so much, I've decided to install Unbuntu 10.10 on my desktop. This has led to two questions. 1) During the install I am told that I have a partition called dev/sdb1 in ext3. I had no idea what that could be. So I aborted the install, and went into Kubuntu to find out. dev/sdb1 was not mounted. But by executing fdisk -l I got this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1130610490413+ 83 Linux So I mounted it to see what it was. It's an empty directory called lost+found. What is that there? What does lost+found do? Why do I need it? 2) During my laptop install I was given the choice of ext3 or ext4. Given my level of expertise, I'd never heard of ext4. By Googling, I learned that ext4 came out in 2008. So you can see where I'm at. I didn't see any negative comments about ext4 so I used it. I'll have the same choice when I install on my desktop. I assume that ext4 is the best choice. Is that right? Thank you. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] Two Install Questions
On 03/12/2011 06:56 AM, Bob Scofield wrote: So I mounted it to see what it was. It's an empty directory called lost+found. What is that there? What does lost+found do? Why do I need it? All Unix base systems create a .lost+found partition. The idea is during fsck if a file is found which fsck can not find the correct link to relink it to it will save the file in .lost+found for you to take a look at and maybe rename and restore to the file system. Normally from what I have found over the years, if the file is there it really should have been deleted, or the file system was so screwed up that it should be wiped clean and restore from backup. I didn't see any negative comments about ext4 so I used it. I'll have the same choice when I install on my desktop. I assume that ext4 is the best choice. Is that right? EXT4 file systems are the new replacement for EXT2 and EXT3 file system. There are a number of pluses for moving to it. Early in its life there was good reason not to. But now EXT4 is a very good choice. And depending on the size of the file system the only choice. Tony ___ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
