On 01/22/2011 12:37 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/01/21 23:08 (GMT-0500) John Perry composed:
I find that ext2fs doesn't work any more because suse, like most (all?) other distributions has gone to 256-byte inodes rather than the original 128-byte inodes...
256 byte is only a default. All my Linux partitions have 128 byte, including 11.3s, 11.4s & Rawhides. Most of mine also have 1024 byte block size, rather than the 4096 current default, but most are 5G or less, where excessive cluster overhang waste is poorly tolerated.
Quite so. But you have to know it's happening and how to prevent it, and I didn't (I have only a vague idea of what an inode might be, actually...). And once the deed is done and has bitten you, you have to reformat the partition to get back (does that answer your question, Doug?), and, as I said, that would be very inconvenient. Possible, but inconvenient -- and if ntfs-3g is now safe, as Tejas maintains, unnecessary for me. I can handle one-way transfer until ext2fs and its siblings catch up. Thanks, all. It's much easier to back up and restore Tana's 2 -- 3G of information than my 50+G. jp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org