why formatting hd with ext2???
Forum: HD Install
Topic: why formatting hd with ext2???
started by: mark_one
Posted by mark_one on Mar. 02 2006,12:09
hi. i'm experimenting a lot with frugal install. everything works fine, but i'm asking myself:
what is the reason for formatting the harddisk with an ext2 filesystem instead of using ext3 or reiserfs?
i know that i read a posting or a comment explaining it, but i can't find the damn thing again.
anyone who can tell me?
greetings
mark
Posted by torp on Mar. 02 2006,13:31
it all depends on your machine. ext2 is recommended for older slower systems. thats why i use it......torp
Posted by mark_one on Mar. 02 2006,13:36
| Quote (torp @ Mar. 02 2006,14:31) |
| it all depends on your machine. ext2 is recommended for older slower systems. thats why i use it...... torp |
hi torp.
thanks for your answer.
ext2 is used for older machines.... hmm i see. and that's all? that's the only reason?
no "it has to be used because... this and that..."
i thought i read a posting that said ext2 is a "must-use". well, to be honest, i've never tried to use anoter filesystem so far.
greetings
mark
Posted by roberts on Mar. 02 2006,15:30
DSL is mainly a liveCD or compressed installed system. We do not require a hard disk. Those other filesystems are journalizing file systems, i.e., the constantly write a journal which could be used to backup/protect the disk writes. So, without a hard disk where would the journal be written. We already seen many systems don't have much memory or inodes and writing to memory would be useless anyway, writing to flash would quickly kill the flash device. Bottom line, DSL is built as a nodmaic OS that does not depend on physcial hard drives.
Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 02 2006,15:50
I think you did read that ext2 is a "must-use". DSL won't boot from reiserfs (at least frugal won't), and if it's on ext3 the device will be mounted as ext2. This doesn't mean it can't use these other filesystems...reiser partitions can be mounted into the system after a successful boot (for a persistent home, for example).
Posted by doobit on Mar. 02 2006,16:42
Frugal is a compressed file as Robert mentioned, so it can be safely kept on an ext2 partition without too much concern for corruption, since it is read-only. As Mikshaw stated, the writeable partitions can be whatever you want them to be, as long as Linux can read it and write to it. I use ext3 for my persistent /home and /opt directories in the laptop because those get written to a lot due to downloading programs to try out, and writing text files that I want to save, etc.
Posted by mark_one on Mar. 02 2006,16:55
thank you very much. that's what i wanted to know. greetings
mark
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 02 2006,19:02
If you don't mind manually adding the "reiserfs" module to you compressed initial ramdisk minirt24.gz, it is possible to have the data stored on a reiserfs partition.But it is far easier to just use EXT2 or even FAT or FAT32 instead of reiserfs.
Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 02 2006,19:20
Besides, ext2 is much faster