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Old March 7, 2003, 17:44   #31
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Hey, geeks, any point for me to turn my ext2 partitions into ext3 ones?
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Old March 7, 2003, 19:46   #32
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Solver: If your computer is stable (if I spoke only from personal experience I'd say that the guy who said that Linux is stable ought to be shot - but I'm using bleeding-edge software on cheapo hardware) and power failures are very rare, or if your hard disk(s) is/are small, not really. The only time when ext3 improves your computer's performance is in the boot-up after a crash, since it only needs to check its journal where ext2 has to perform a full fsck.

And Asher, I said used to. If you find me a free download link on Libranet's site I will stand corrected, but currently there is, AFAIK, no official free ISO image of Libranet. Well, not free ISO image that is linked to on Libranet's website, anyway.
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Old March 7, 2003, 20:14   #33
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My Linux is damn stable... the few times when I have got trouble with it, are entirely my own fault. My hardware is pretty fine though.

Anything else about ext3, except the journal thing? If not, I'll probably be staying at ext2.
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ext3 is basically ext2 with a journal stuck on. It's dead simple to convert from ext2 to ext3, and once you have you can boot using either at will. The disadvantage to ext3 is the journal taking up a few dozen (or whatever it is) megs of hard drive space. Of course, any time you change something you risk destabilisation, but some might say that worrying about that on a home machine is nudging paranoia.

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And Asher, I said used to. If you find me a free download link on Libranet's site I will stand corrected, but currently there is, AFAIK, no official free ISO image of Libranet. Well, not free ISO image that is linked to on Libranet's website, anyway.
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/libranet/2.0/
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Old March 7, 2003, 22:44   #36
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Well, I am sort of paranoid, but I'll stick with ext2.

On a related notice, five in the morning... a bit too much browsing???
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Converting to ext3 is very easy (you have to have ext3-support compiled into the kernel however):

Run the command: "tune2fs -j /dev/hdx#" to convert partition /dev/hdx# to ext3. (Replace x with the drive-letter and # with the partition number). Do this for each partition you want to convert.

Then you need to edit /etc/fstab and replace the "ext2" entries with "ext3" on the partitions you have converted. It might be advisable to run "sync" after converting.

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Two things make Linux instable:

1 - "bleeding edge software". Brand new open source software is usually a buggy hell and who uses it, is usually the alpha tester. Well, the same goes, of course, for brand new commercial software.

2 - X and all what is related to it.

I'm running a server at home with a Debian stable (original potato, on the fly upgraded to woody) and no X. I can't remember when I rebooted it last time.

EDIT/update: "uptime" says 83 days, that was a new kernel IIRC.
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