On Tuesday 28 January 2003 02:51, Steve Lamb wrote:
Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just that
with swapd. Question is what effects do a journalling file system have on
swap files?
Thanks for the advice guys I will leave swap partition as nature
intended !!
Dave
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:34:47 +0100
Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to what a prof. said, swapspace should be placed outside any
filesystems since that filesystem would add to the already gigantic overhead
the disk produces by adding a layer of indirection (look up the file,
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
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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
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I'm thinking not.
ext3 is a
On Monday 27 January 2003 18:57, Dave Selby 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 ??
NO! Don't touch the swap partition. It has no file system and creating one
would corrupt it. A file system on
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
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On 27 Jan 2003 15:29:18 -0600
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heck, not only would it not do anything useful for you, you just can't
do it!!
Well, technically you can after a fashion. You can make a swap file on
the current file system which could be ext3. In fact I've done just
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:41:01 -0800
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... just FYI =)
Quite aware of that. However shutdown -F's behavior can change in the
future or do something completely different on another OS without me having to
know what it does. To me it is better to use the
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:52:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:59:58 +
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
Then how do you move .journal
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck
On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:08, Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
This creates a
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:08:50 +
Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in
its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ?
I can understand doing a fsck, but this command sequence has thrown
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:08:50AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
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Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
On 2003.01.25 04:08 Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due
to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:08:50AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in
its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ?
No, that file is created when you do shutdown -rF now. Using this
command will have the same effect.
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Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:08:50AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
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| I dont get the bit about
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| touch /forcefsck
|
| touch changes the file timestamps ?
Yes, that's right. (and it creates the file if it doesn't exist)
| I cant find a reference to forcefsck in its man or info pages. Is
Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 03:08, Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:08:50AM +, Dave Selby wrote:
touch /forcefsck
Can anyone shed light ??
See man shutdown:
The -F flag means Force fsck'. This only creates an
advisory file /forcefsck which can be tested by the system
when it comes up again. The
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Manuel Ifland wrote:
4) Deactivate all further checks as they are no longer needed:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hda2
There are circumstances where a check is performed on ext3fs
partitions after a crash. Imho it would be very unwise to turn off
those
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:59:58 +
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
Then how do you move .journal into its hidden location?
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:59:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
Though it's not required to fsck an FS after creating a journal with
tune2fs -j, it is a good idea to do it on
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:59:58PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
Frankly I wouldn't bother with that second step. I've never needed it
for any of the filesystems I've converted to ext3.
It hides the journal so you don't have a .journal file laying around
in the partition root.
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On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:47:33PM +0100, Manuel Ifland wrote:
where did you read to do a touch /forcefsck? In my opinion
this command only creates a file called forcefsck in the root
directory if not already there. Not more or less.
I can only guess that by issuing this command, you turn off
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:56:23 -0800
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can never be too safe with your data.
Well some believe that disconnecting the ether, encasing the computer in a
waterproof safe, burying the safe in a block of concrete 80x80 and dumping
that into the ocean to
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On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 09:08:50 +
Dave Selby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
touch /forcefsck
touch changes the file timestamps ? I cant find a reference to forcefsck in
its man or info pages. Is it a switch of some kind ?
I can
On Saturday 25 January 2003 9:08 am, Dave Selby wrote:
Im planning to turn my ext2 to an ext3 after a system crash due to a
winmodem driver running with dependency problems ..
OK I get the bit about
tune2fs -j /dev/hda2
I dont get the bit about
touch /forcefsck
touch changes
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