Re: journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-19 Thread Ric Tibbetts
Charles A. Punch wrote: > Tom Brinkman wrote: > >> On Monday 17 September 2001 10:57 am, Matt Greer escribió: >> >>> on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should have already. >>> What exactly i

Re: journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-17 Thread Charles A. Punch
Tom Brinkman wrote: >On Monday 17 September 2001 10:57 am, Matt Greer escribió: > >>on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should >>>have already. >>> >>What exactly is a journaling file system? What does it me

Re: journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-17 Thread Paul Rodríguez
A lot of people have found that doing a fresh install of a later version of Mandrake tends to save a lot of system stabillity issues. If you made a seperate /home partition, you should be able to safely format all of your other partitions and still retain most of your personal information and set

journaling and upgrading (Re: [newbie] a filesystem question)

2001-09-17 Thread Matt Greer
on 9/17/01 10:20 AM, Tom Brinkman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > but I'd recommend switching to a journaling FS ASAP. You should > have already. What exactly is a journaling file system? What does it mean that it journals? Also, with 8.1 around the corner, what does it take to upgrade? If I wer