[plug] formatting new external usb hardrive

[Shayne O'Neill]

I just cant agree here.

For a start, if it isnt using the journal, then infact its just ext2 ;)

So I suspect your bad experience was with ext2.

But I've just had no trouble at all. Granted I suspect XFS is probably the
most solid of the lot, I'm not entirely convinced of reisers stability,
I've seen it do some straaange things sometimes, but I've never had any
such problem with ext3.

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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, William Kenworthy wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:18 +0800, Sol wrote:
>
> Personnel comment - avoid ext3 if theres any chance of a premature
> powerdown/unplug: I changed back to reiserfs, and after a couple of
> crashes/resets theres still no errors, unlike what has happened with
> ext3.  ext3 has a data=journelled option which may help in some cases.
>
> I found rsync did not work well in the context of full system backups.
> It ran out of memory very quickly with many thousands of files and also
> took a long time.  Use "unison" which uses the rsync protocol, but makes
> better use of it for this purpose.
>
> BillK
>
>
> > In part of this article it asks me to mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1. I'm doing
> > this now but I'm wondering if this is the way to go because both the
> > server and laptop I want to back up use reiserfs? I was going to tar
> > everything under / for the initial backup and then us rsync from there
> > onwards to keep things up to date. Will this work? Or are there some
> > horrible nasties lying in wait for me when I actually need to recover
> > from backup?
> >
>
>
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