On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:10:17PM -0400, 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, I might want to try it. Give it a go, then. > Are there significant benefits, to outweigh the "risks" of me possibly > hosing my system? I went to the following links, and didn't see much in > the way of advocacy or potential upsides. You get journalling, so crash recovery is a few seconds rather than a the better part of an hour for today's large hard disks. It's fairly quick, and it's difficult for anyone with an IQ greater than a brick to screw up conversion. -- Baloo
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