Hello Hans-J.,
"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
> On my new drive I chose ext4 (with luks encryption) for as far as I read, most
> people are using ext4 instead of ext3 on ssd drives.
> Is this really recommended?
ext4 provides shorter recovery/file system check times, which I
really like. Apart from that, I don’t think there are many
differences between the two visible to the normal user.
> And if yes, should I change the filesystem from ext3 to ext4 on my old spin
> drive? I think, this can be done with tune2fs (when I remember correctly),
> without any loss of data. If I am wrong, please point me to the correct tool.
I think so, too, but have never tried that.
> Most important thing for me is speed and security, and, of course, lifetime of
> the ssd is also important. I added noatime and discard to /etc/fstab, hope
> this is correct.
If you have a reasonably modern SSD, lifetime normally should not be
a problem. Of course, noatime helps nevertheless (if only by speeding
up things and giving you fewer reasons to throw the laptop around
impatiently :)).
> Just a last question: During installation, I forgot, how I formatted the "/"
> partition (ext3 or ext4?). Is there a way, to find out, how it is formatted?
> Strangely, the option "discard" in /etc/fstab seem not to work on this
> particular partition.
The output of ‘mount’ should contain the file system, for example:
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=5,barrier=1,data=writeback)
/dev/mapper/ares0-root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)
^^^^
Best regards,
Claudius
--
<woot> Put *that* in you .sig and smoke it, Knghtbrd.
<Culus> You know he will read this :>
<woot> heheheheh.
http://chubig.net telnet nightfall.org 4242
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature