Re: [Hampshire] Which filesystem? Solved, Ext3 it is :)

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Author: Ritchie
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Which filesystem? Solved, Ext3 it is :)
That's great, thanks for the advice all. I wasn't quite sure on the
advantages of ext3 over ext2.

Ritchie

Vic wrote:
>> 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?
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> 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.
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> Vic.
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