Hi, Just a short question should I use ext3 in root partition or etx2? I got two partition one mounted at /home and all the disk activities (r,w) happening there, ; and one is root partition. Cheers ====S.KIEU _____________________________________________________________________________ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
On 18 Jul 2001 16:45:06 +1000, Steve Kieu wrote:> Just a short question should I use ext3 in root > partition or etx2? I got two partition one mounted at > /home and all the disk activities (r,w) happening > there, ; and one is root partition.I'd make the root partition ext3 as well - you are likely to have some write activity into it - ie /var & maybe /tmp - unless you mount r/o. Its also worth making sure that any boot/rescue disk you have has either an ext3 capable kernel, or (better) an ext3 capable e2fsck as otherwise in a disaster you may find that your rescue disks will be unable to mount root. Even if your root is read-mostly, after a crash a fsck will be required on an ext2 fs and this will obviously take time as well as there being a chance of the fs being broken. [I typically ext3 all filesystems except /boot - I don't actually now have a good reason for not journalling /boot but that tends to have a burst of writes every few weeks and takes around 10 seconds to fsck so I just haven't bothered - its also only a few times bigger than the typical journal size] Nigel.
Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:45:06PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote:> > Just a short question should I use ext3 in root > partition or etx2? I got two partition one mounted at > /home and all the disk activities (r,w) happening > there, ; and one is root partition.ext3 should be fine on root --- I do that with all of my own installs. "tune2fs -j" can create a journal even on a live, mounted filesystem, so it's easy to set up a journal on the root. Cheers, Stephen