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Hi Folks,

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:08:11 +1200
baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sheldon wrote:
> >
> > Folks, I tried searching the archives, but was unable 
> > to find out whether BL 3.5 can write to ext3 partitions.
> 
> No, the default kernel does not do ext3.  It is 
> a small footprint kernel, optimized for old PCs.
> 
> You are welcome to use a bigger, newer, more capable
> kernel with BL3.  I think Sindi has some experience 
> with this.
> 
> > Somewhere I read that ext3 is better than ext2, 
> 
> It depends on what you are using your computer for.
> For old, single-user PCs, ext2 works just fine.

   One advantage of ext2 over ext3 is that with ext2 it is possible to 
recover files accidentally deleted.
I speak from personal experience. I managed to recover about 13 GB of stuff 
after pressing the wrong key (del key) while looking at the BL2 file system 
from inside another Linux distro.

   I now have (almost) all my Linux installations running in ext2 format.

Regards,
         Ron

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