Chip Rose wrote:
As a new Debian3.0 user, I've seen posts about converting to ext3 or another type filesystem. I don't know anything about this, but if it would make my single-user computer more stable,
Probably won't make it more stable, but it's a little safer in the event of a catastrophic system shutdown (power outage, etc).
I might want to try it. Are there significant benefits, to outweigh the "risks" of me possiblyI tend to run it on my boxes; I haven't had any problems. And, if you want to ease into it, and you have multiple partitions,just convert on a partition-by-partition basis; you don't have to convert your entire system all at once.hosing my system? I went to the following links, and didn't see much in the way of advocacy or potential upsides. http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html http://www.symonds.net/~rajesh/howto/ext3/ext3-5.html Thanks/Chip Rose =================
For example, to convert the /var partition, tune2fs -j /var Kent