I think Howard makes it ext3, unless he is lazy and lets it default to 4 or whatever. <grin>
Ext3 and others are 'compatible' but each extra version takes about 10% of disk space for the services that the other versions provide. Normally not a big deal, but if you don't write often to a partition or mainly read, ext2 or 3 is perfectly fine. (reduces journaling areas and 'temporary data areas' that allow for more rapid writes. Working with Howard a long time ago building a backup system we figured that out. On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank for the responses! > Howard: inodes? inodes are atomic part of the ext type file systems (and > some other UNIX file systems too). I haven't ever heard of trouble because > of running out of inodes. How big is the partition? Is it ext3? > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/08/2015 04:20 PM, JMJ wrote: >> >>> On 03/08/2015 04:04 PM, Csaba Toth wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder if your boot can fill up if you have too many versions of >>>> kernels. >>>> >>> >>> That hasn't actually happened on my system, but I think it CAN happen if >>> /boot is a separate partition. I usually only keep 1 or 2 kernels >>> installed specifically to avoid that issue. This is one reason I was >>> thinking about putting /boot back on the / partition. >>> >>> JMJ >>> >>> >> The answer is "yes" as I do keep a separate boot partition (out of old >> habit) and yes I do have to go clean it out periodically. In Ubuntu, the >> software updater informs one rather bluntly that a kernel upgrade is not >> possible for lack of space however the system is not compromised. I go >> clean out the boot partition save the last two or three and then do the >> software update again. No big deal. >> >> I recently upgraded a long time desktop system of mine from Ubuntu 10.4 >> to 14.4 (he who has had bad experience with Ubuntu upgrades) and was >> thwarted in a subsequent update by a lack of inodes on the / file system. >> I had to go clean out the /usr/src directory for all the old linux headers >> that I no longer require. Not a space issue but inodes. Learned a new >> twist on the df command: df -hi. >> >> Howard >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ >> googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ >> group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ><> ... Jack "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Ben Franklin -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
