Quentin Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 22:20 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 10:04 +1300, Quentin Jackson wrote:
I don't mean to be too contentious, but these are the reasons I switched to XFS. I would actually prefer to be ext3 since it's more common. Just my 2c :) Actually, about two versions ago xfs had a problem similar to this one, it was not synced on halt. it must be recorded somewhere on the archive.
I guess I've been lucky :)
I used to have to do ext3 fixups quite often on home and root. Out of interest (hope I can post this here) what do you guys recommend for a partition setup? Mine is simple, just swap, / and /home.
Q
My main root partition is ext3, but home is xfs.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
As I intensely dislike running out of space on partitions and having symlinks to wherever space is, I have / and swap on all my boxes. Even Sun went away from the old scheme in Solaris quite some years ago. Whenever I have suffered corruptions, it has always been down to faulty hardware that would have clobbered every partition. I also backup any critical data to multiple other boxes and to a USB hard drive. With the large hard drives available these days, perhaps any scheme works equally well. On a Sun workstation back in the 1990's, it ran out of space on the /usr (I think) partition so the guys at work couldn't install or build any new software - No problem, NFS mount / on the PC which I had installed Linux to the Sun box and I got them out of a hole - the problem was due to all the small standard disk partitions created as then recommended by Sun's default install. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org