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bluestar88
03-21-2003, 02:29 AM
Is there a place online where they explain the use of these three linux type partition? I installed redhat 8.0 using ext 3 and I want to know what's the advantage of that over ext 2. I don't know what swap is use for but I surely understand it's not something I can put linux on :).
I'm pretty new to linux and I could use some reading. If you guys do have a good source please pass on the site to me, thank you so much.
Tn
error27
03-21-2003, 03:03 AM
basically ext3 shouldn't become corrupted as easilly if your computer crashes (power failure etc).
people use ext2 if they don't trust new software. but these days ext3 is considerred pretty well tested though.
also ext2 is faster so if you don't care about losing your data when the machine crashes it might be worth considerring.
when you run out of ram the os uses the harddrive to save things that would normally be put in ram. It uses the space on the swap partition for taht.
bluestar88
03-21-2003, 04:07 AM
Oh I see. So right now I'm looking at pqmagic and I'm seeing a swap partition is it possible for me to add one right now? I have 384mb and I do not do gaming on my linux partition or anything that will take chucks of memory. You think I'm good as I'm or should I find a way to create a swap partition?
Tn
A swap partition can't hurt if you got space on the drive. Many people will advise you make swap twice the size of your physical RAM, but with 384M of RAM on a low-load/light-duty system it wouldn't have to be nearly that large.