File Systems

[Ugly Me]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "NoOp" <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: File Systems


> On 03/28/2009 06:17 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> >>     I have loaded Jaunty Beta twice, and have done a full update on
> >> this computers Jaunty. All is fine, but I was stopped 2 times because
> >> the loader was going to use the ext2 file system, but I wanted the
> >> ext3 file system and found that and both are using it.
> >
> > You could change an ext2 system to ext3 with a simple command
> > (tune2fs -j), so ext2 would have been no real problem.
> >
> >>     But I noted there is now a ext4 file system. Does anyone know why
> >> I should use ext4 :-)
> >
> > I could only tell you why you should NOT use ext4. It is still
> > experimental and some people lost some files.
> > <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781>
> >
> >
> > Nils
> >
>
> Plus there are grub issues, etc:

Like in the garden?
I'm still trying to figure out the differences between all these file
systems.
Currently I have FAT and NTFS partitions on my Win2K system.
I have yet to install Linux except experimentally but I'm preparing for it.