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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: How stable is extended filesystem?
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 02:55:55 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Keywords: extfs
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- In article <1992Dec15.232106.24407@tc.cornell.edu>
- kutcha@eos.acm.rpi.edu (Phillip Rzewski) writes:
- >
- > On a related topic, if I decide to go all 213 megs Linux, I'll still
- > have some space left over on my other hard drive (the 55 megs I'm
- > using now). Would you suggest going extfs with that too, or keeping
- > some as the old style? Reasons?
-
- I've only been using Linux for two days. I've installed it on a 300MB
- "extended" partition. Half of one of those days was spent reinstalling
- after it barfed on my disk.
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- If you don't *need* extfs, and don't mind short file names, I would
- recommend not using it for now.
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