Les Mikesell wrote: > Since your data normally isn't journalled anyway, you probably aren't > any more likely to lose anything with ext2, but you may have to wait > through a long fsck. The main problem I've had with ext2 wasn't > so much that it needed the fsck to clean it, it was that the stock > setup refused to fix many errors automatically. If a system was at > all busy when it crashed it would very likely drop you to a root > prompt and make you run fsck manually, answering 'y' to every > prompt (as though I wouldn't want it fixed...). No fun at all when > the box is miles away. > It's been awhile since I had to sit through one of those boot time fsck's, but now that you guys remind me of them I remember why I'm using ext3. Kirk Bocek