On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel shared this with us all:
>--} So now I am more or less ready to take the plunge. But I would
>--} still like some advice.
>--}
>--} 1. Is it true that ext3 always lets you recover smoothly after a
>--} "freeze and pull the plug", or after a power cut? Or a
To the other Mr. Johnson, sorry for the double, I botched the
reply/reply to list distinction there.
On Jan 19, 2008 12:27 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
> >> Step 6: type tun
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:27:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
> > If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank file.
>
> So when does the journaling begin? At remount?
Perhaps on the next write once it is mounted as ext3? When the journ
Curt Howland wrote:
> If I may interject, creating the journal just creates a blank
> file.
This would explain why creating the journal does not seem to take
any time. But "strings" showed that there was a lot of stuff (at
least lots of filenames) in it. Perhaps the journal is *created*
as a blan
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On 01/19/08 13:44, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
>> Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created
>> instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time.
>> but i
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On Saturday 19 January 2008, Jan Willem Stumpel was heard to say:
> Step 6: type tune2fs -j /dev/hda5. The journal was created
> instantaneously (I'd expected this to take a long time.
> but it did not).
If I may interject, creating th
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Some steps may have been unnecessary, but it seems I have a
> working ext3 system now. It is really easy. The real smoke test
> will come, of course, when I pull the plug. Will do this now; if
> you do not hear from me, the test will have failed. Thanks to all
> who res
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Step 1: Get root privileges.
> Step 2: Type tune2fs -j /dev/whatever
> Step 3: Remount the filesystem ext3...
I did this, and indeed it was amazingly easy. On a partition of
about 24 G (well, this is an *old* disk!) a file /.journal of 128
M (indeed much less than 1%) was cr
On Jan 19, 2008 9:39 AM, Andrew Sackville-West
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> ...
> >
> > But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of
> > X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year,
> > un
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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>
> But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of
> X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year,
> unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is
> nothing you can do but
On Jan 19, 2008 5:35 AM, Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am especially put off by the Wikipedia article on ext3. It gives
> a rather long list of "disadvantages". One of them ("No
> checksumming in journal") even sounds pretty frightening. The list
> of "advantages" is very short,
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On 01/19/08 07:35, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
>> Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom:
>>> ext2. Never have used any other.
>> I seriously hope that this was a joke...
>
> Maybe it was, but I never used anything but ext2 either, and th
Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
> Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom:
>>
>> ext2. Never have used any other.
>
> I seriously hope that this was a joke...
Maybe it was, but I never used anything but ext2 either, and that
is no joke. It has worked fine for many years. I often considered
"upgrading" to ext3, but so
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