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Author: Vic
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New-Topics: Re: [Hampshire] Which filesystem? Solved, Ext3 it is :)
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> The data I am backing up is in ext3 format, would I be best of using
> ext2 or ext3 for the external drive? Or any other file system?

Choose ext3 over ext2 for this sort of thing - ext2 is very fragile in
respect of power loss, random unplugging, etc. ext3 is very much more
reilient.

Vic.



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