Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?
"Michael" == Michael Hothorn <mhothorn@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> writes:
Michael> Has anyone a thinkpad (or any other laptop) running a
Michael> journaling filesystem (reiserfs, xfs, ext3)? Is it safe
Michael> (in the kernel config it's still mentioned as
Michael> EXPERIMENTAL) and running stable?
Hi Michael,
I have kernel 2.4.18-k7 in Debian woody on a Compaq Armada M300 laptop
running ext3. My home built desktop is also running ext3 on non-root
partitions on a 60G drive. It has been up almost 3 weeks continously
but for one power failure when I flipped the wrong circuit breaker. No
problems at all, it works great, and recovery from the power failure
is a treat ;-)
Rune tune2fs -j /dev/hdxn on each ext2 partition you want to
convert. Change /etc/fstab so the partitions are listed as ext3. When
you convert you will get a .journal file in each partition root which
will go away on reboot. If you change the root partition to ext3 you
have to live with the .journal file even after the reboot too, there's
no easy way to get rid of it, and it's not worth the trouble IMHO. Do
not delete the .journal file! On my laptop that's how it is
(everything is on one partition), on the desktop the root partition is
ext2 and less than 200 Mb, the others are all ext3.
Cheers!
Shyamal
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