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Nostradamus
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ext2 is the major filesystem used.
you can however mount several different filesystems. It´s very flexible that way.
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you can however mount several different filesystems. It´s very flexible that way.
/Sören
Hi,
Yes ext2 (Extended Filesystem 2) if the 'standard' linux filesystem but ReiserFS is also widely used, expecially with SuSe. The latter is a journalling filesystem (less problems if it ever crashes). There is an update to ext2 known as ext3 (!) under development which is also a journalling filesystem and also IBM have released their JFS filesystem too. Linux has very good filesystem support and can be installed on a fat16/fat32 system if you really want rather than an ext2 partition. It also supports ntfs but not very reliably in the read-write sense.
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Yes ext2 (Extended Filesystem 2) if the 'standard' linux filesystem but ReiserFS is also widely used, expecially with SuSe. The latter is a journalling filesystem (less problems if it ever crashes). There is an update to ext2 known as ext3 (!) under development which is also a journalling filesystem and also IBM have released their JFS filesystem too. Linux has very good filesystem support and can be installed on a fat16/fat32 system if you really want rather than an ext2 partition. It also supports ntfs but not very reliably in the read-write sense.
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