Osho Thank you for your reply and advice. Sorry to be so long in replying as I have had to take exotic steps beyond virus detection with regard to my email. Osho GG wrote:
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 19:11:46 -0600, Ted Hilts
wrote: Of the various file system types available on Linux from SuSe 9.1 distribution (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and others), which one is the most generally useful and why would I pick one over another?
This is a topic that could start flame wars :). I would just say that journled file systems (such as ext3, reiserfs, XFS etc.) are better than non-journelled one (e.g. ext2). The main benefit being quick recovery in case of system crash (no long boot up time when file system is getting checked).
I personally go with the default journelled fs for whatever distribution I am using. The reason simply being that it must have been well-checked for their version of kernel/other packages.
Osho