Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:



 RT> We know where your biases are,  eh?

 MK> I wonder how that happened?  :-)



 RT> The problem with that is losing other stuff besides,  scattered around
 RT> the HD here and there.

 MK> That happens.  There are 4 partitions on the 40G here;

 MK> / = /dev/hda1
 MK> swap = /dev/hda2
 MK> /home = /dev/hda3
 MK> /mnt/archives = /dev/hda4

Right now I have:

/ = /dev/hda1
swap = /dev/hda2
/home = /dev/hdb1
/var = /dev/hdb2

Those last two saved me a lot of grief last time I upgraded...

 MK> Of these 4, /home and /mnt/archives tend to get scattered but 
 MK> seeing thaat I only install to /dev/hda1 theen as long as I back up
 MK> the important stuff on /etc then life is good.

I'll need to take a good look around before I actually go ahead and do anything.

 RT> Yeah,  exactly.  We had a brief power glitch here yesterday morning,
 RT> early.  It only went away for a very short period of time,  but all
 RT> three of the computers rebooted.  Fortunately,  it was done with the
 RT> filesystem checking well before I woke up.  :-)

 MK> You too eh?  The power went out here for three hours.  It happens.

A UPS is definitely on my list of stuff to get.  Even if I can find one
which needs batteries,  since I have batteries...

 RT> Still,  the wait for that can be annoying,  if I'm sitting here
 RT> watching it,  and this is something that's only gonna get worse when
 RT> I get into much bigger HD space here.

 MK> That would be a good reason for formatting them ext3.

 MK> Maurice

My thinking exactly.  And I suspect that this is probably the reason that
ext2 is the last of several choices in the 8.1 install process.

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