[Novalug] Question about file system formats
Bonnie Dalzell
bdalzell@qis.net
Fri May 4 16:18:10 EDT 2012
In the past I had been using ext2 on the / partition and then ext3 on the
other partitions. I am actually not sure why. When I installed Linux
Mint last week and let it choose fs type the installer suggested ext4.
So that is what I did. I am going to be consolidating a lot of files and
emptying out partitions.
Is there any reason to prefer one over the other. Is the journaling
to protect if there is a machine crash better with the higher
number fs?
I just unmounted the newly emptied partition and ran
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdc
on it.
Part of the report is:
Filesystem state: not clean
I was thinking I might as well reformat it and there is no reason to
leave it as ext2.
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