Re: journaling file system on thinkpad?
On Fri, 10 May 2002 01:32, Michael Hothorn wrote:
> I'm running woody with kernel 2.4.18 on an IBM i1200 Thinkpad. I am using
> ext2 filesystem for all partitions (but swap:-). It happend more than
> once, that I left the machine on battery and left the office for more
> than 3h ....
>
> Has anyone a thinkpad (or any other laptop) running a journaling
> filesystem (reiserfs, xfs, ext3)? Is it safe (in the kernel
> config it's still mentioned as EXPERIMENTAL) and running stable?
I've run ext3 and ReiserFS on several Thinkpads without any problems at all.
> And: How to switch from ext2 to journaling? I have recent mondo/mindi
> backups of the machine. But what about booting from it with LILO?
LILO works in the same way on ReiserFS(*) and Ext3 as it does on Ext2.
For converting your root file system to Ext3 see the large discussion on
Debian-devel.
(*) Provided you use a recent version of LILO, use the woody version not the
Potato version.
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