Re: ati radeon 9700M and X
On September 7, 2004 09:21 am, Michael Olson wrote:
> Tim Taubert <ttmails@gmx.de> writes:
> > i'm sure i can select it at the installtion process, can't i? ... i
> > crashed my whole system with this damn ati stuff.. dpkg is not working
> > anymore.. ext2 gave up :) i have to re-install the system.. by the
> > way.. is ext3 at any better than ext2?
>
> Yes, by all means, use ext3 (or reiserfs) instead of ext2. These
> other filesystems have journals, which means that you are much less
> likely to lose data if the computer crashes or gets turned off
> suddenly. Reiserfs is supposed to be a bit faster than ext3, IIRC.
Remember, though, ext3 is not really "better" than ext2 other than the
presence of a journal. It _is_ ext2 with a journal, and you can even mount
it as ext2 if you want.
--
derek
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